AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/4nhmfr
June 20, 2008 (blogs.technet.com) - "…After its first -day- in MSRT, Taterf components had been removed from over 700,000 machines! For comparison, Win32/Nuwar (aka ‘Storm worm’) was removed from less than half that in its first month… So how does one avoid being infected? Running an up-to-date anti-virus solution is a good start. Running an up-to-date, patched browser is another necessity – many of the Win32/Frethog trojans are installed via browser exploits (there have been instances in the past of links to malicious sites being posted to popular gaming forums – so be wary!). Enabling Automatic Updates helps a whole bunch too. Disabling the Explorer ‘autoplay’ feature is useful in helping to avoid these problems…"
(Charts of disinfections/country available at the URL above.)
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/4nhmfr
June 20, 2008 (blogs.technet.com) - "…After its first -day- in MSRT, Taterf components had been removed from over 700,000 machines! For comparison, Win32/Nuwar (aka ‘Storm worm’) was removed from less than half that in its first month… So how does one avoid being infected? Running an up-to-date anti-virus solution is a good start. Running an up-to-date, patched browser is another necessity – many of the Win32/Frethog trojans are installed via browser exploits (there have been instances in the past of links to malicious sites being posted to popular gaming forums – so be wary!). Enabling Automatic Updates helps a whole bunch too. Disabling the Explorer ‘autoplay’ feature is useful in helping to avoid these problems…"
(Charts of disinfections/country available at the URL above.)