Anti-Virus Update

[NoSpam]

Since this seems to be the week of the worm, with a war going on between the pimple faced writers of netsky and bagle (from comments embedded in the worms), its nice to know that most every AV was updated today. If you check the list at _http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9565804~mode=flat, you'll see that every AV they list was updated today, along with every anti-trojan listed (except PestPatrol), and even Ad-Aware was updated today. There was also a beta update to Spybot S&D on the 29th.

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[serjer]

really it's worm day....wat did they eat?worms?

 

[banzibaby]

Cheers for the news NoSpam

Have Avast & NOD updated to latest sig files, i seem to have been lucky in not getting any of the worms that have been going about

BaNzI

 

[NoSpam]

Have Avast & NOD updated to latest sig files, i seem to have been lucky in not getting any of the worms that have been going about

Its a running battle to keep your AV updated this week. Every AV listed in the top stickey post of dslreports security forum was updated today:

AntiVir/AVPE
Avast
AVG 6 Free
Bit Defender
Dr. Web
eTrust EZ
F-Prot
F-Secure
KAV
McAfee Weekly
NAV
Nod-32
Norman Virus Control
Panda
RAV
Sophos
TrendMicro (PC-cillin)

For NAV, since there wasn't a LiveUpdate today, you need to download the Intelligent Updater (which was updated today) and run it, that's found on http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-N95.html. For those that don't know, NAV LiveUpdate is usually updated on Wed (except times like this last week, multiple times some days), but other weekdays you can go to that Intelligent Updater link and download the daily update. You can always tell if its been updated for the current day, as the file name is based on the date.

Oh, Spybot S&D was updated yesterday and Ad-aware was updated today.

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