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Douglas Schweitzer

The Security Sector

Get shelter from this Storm

This computer virus is unusually notorious. And talk about staying power - this spam-generating beast only just turned a year old and in that amount of time it has infected a million PCs the world over. Called Storm, this worm/Trojan/bot owes it success to its ability to mutate and seemingly with almost no limitations. Once infected, victim PCs can be controlled by others and go on to generate spam. Plenty of PCs are still being victimized. At one time, all we needed to do to stay out of this Storm's path was to unfailingly refrain from opening any unknown, non-requested email, no matter how tantalizing the subject line. That's still the best approach, but be reminded that now, even just browsing to seemingly harmless websites (sent via those emails) can get you an infection.

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Questions

Douglas,
Actionable information would be useful to include in such a notice, such as:
1) Do the standard antivirus suites (Norton, McAfee, etc.) detect and/or defend against this threat?
2) Is there any way to tell whether a PC has been infected?
3) What do you do if you have an infected system?
Thanks for your updates.