07 Dec 2000
Are you protected against Prolin/Shockwave?
The technical support department
at Sophos Anti-Virus is receiving an increasing number of calls
from customers affected by the W32/Prolin (also known as
Shockwave).
The virus arrives in the form of an email attachment called
CREATIVE.EXE, with the subject line:
A great Shockwave flash movie
and the message body text:
Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded
just now...It's Great, Bye
The worm, although nothing like as prevalent as the Melissa or LoveBug outbreaks, is
being encountered very often and Sophos Anti-Virus users have been
able to protect against it since 1st December 2000. Protection
against this worm will be included in Sophos Anti-Virus February 2001
(3.42) and later. In the mean time users can protect themselves
with an IDE file.
Read further
information about W32/Prolin and download the IDE file for
protection.
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