full-disclosure - [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison

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From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results

3APA3A wrote:
> Do  you  remember  Nimda  worm?  It  was  probably first worm
> to exploit
> Outlook Express vulnerability to launch itself automatically.
> On Windows
> NT  4.0  F-Secure  engine  (well, it was few years ago, I
> don't remember
> version) had a problem - it catch this worm _after_ it was
> executed. And
> worm  successfully  spreads  from  protected  machine approx.
> in ~50% of
> cases...

Yes, remember Nimda quite well, we made a lot of money over a couple of
weeks cleaning up operations using Norton Enterprise.  However, we had
around 80 boxes in the DMZ with full Internet public ip's protected with
F-Secure and none got it.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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