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PRESS
RELEASE
Oslo, 19 August 2003
HIGH ALERT – SEVERAL NEW WORMS
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Several fast-spreading worms
– Blaster.A to D, Nachi.A and Sobig.F are “flooding” the
Internet.
Norman has today issued a high alert for the new,
extremely fast-spreading email worm named Sobig.F. This is
one example of several new fast-spreading worms seen on
the Internet the latest week.
Norway is today the most infected Sobig.F country with 33%
of all reported incidents, USA is second with 30% and
Nederland’s with 11% (information from Messagelabs.com).
Norman now alerts all users to be specially careful when
they are connected to the Internet.
“Today is the day to update all your security programs and
get the latest patches for your operating system and
applications. Be suspicious of all communication from
unknown and even known persons. If you receive emails with
attachments from people you don’t know do not openthe
attachment”, says Steinar Wigtil, Director of R&D. “The
Blaster and Nachi worms, however, do not spread using
emails, but by exploiting a security hole in Windows. You
must therefore ensure that your operating system is
updated/patched to be secure from these threats”, he
continues.
“Norman has registered a lot of infected users who needed
help to get their systems up running again. Most of these
infections are unnecessary accidents where better internal
routines and more careful behaviour would have prevented
the problem”, says Eirik Amundsen Support Director of
Norman.
Norman Virus Control (NVC) with definitions files from
today, Tuesday, August 19th 2003 or later detects all
known variants of these new worms. Users are encouraged to
update their NVC installation with the new definition
files immediately.
More information about these worms is available on
Norman’s web site www.norman.com
For further
information, please contact
SAV25
Data Systems
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