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RE: Re[2]: [inbox] Re: Hi! Antiviruses Comparison - A Little Research Results


From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:07:39 -0500

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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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke

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