Sophos has announced the discovery of the first macro viruses
which target Visio drawings.
VM5/Radiant-A (also known as VIS5/RadiantAngels) and
VM5/Unstable-A (also known as V2KM/Unstable, Visio2000.Unstable and
Visio2K.Unstable) are being analysed by Sophos virus researchers in
the Sophos virus labs. Neither have been reported from the wild and
they are not considered a significant threat.
Detection for these viruses will be included in a future version
of Sophos Anti-Virus.
Visio Corp, which develops business drawing and diagramming
software, was acquired by Microsoft in January 2000. The Visio
product incorporates the Visual Basic for Applications macro
language also found in Microsoft's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,
and Project products.
About Sophos
Sophos is one of the world's largest specialist developers of
anti-virus and encryption software. The products are sold and
supported through a global network of subsidiaries and distributors
in more than 40 countries. Sophos Anti-Virus is widely used by
large corporations, banks and governments.
The product set is notable for its reliability, stability,
consistently high detection rates and fine engineering. The update
infrastructure and technical support are outstanding. Sophos Plc
was recently voted Britain's best medium-sized company.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.