Reports started coming in yesterday of multiple infections from the "Here You Have" worm (a variant of W32/VBMania@MM). Here are several articles detailing the worm.
If you are using the practices I advocate (e.g. not clicking on any link sent via email that you weren't expecting to receive, and not giving your user account administrative privileges) then your risk of getting this virus is low. If you have the ability to filter out websites on your network, I would filter out the expressions "sharedocuments.com" and "sharemovies.com" as these are the sites that hosted the original files.
As always I highly recommend that you keep your anti-virus up to date and that you patch your system early and often.
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- Jonathan Watts
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- I have over 15 years of professional experience in the I.T. field, working with individuals and small to mid-size businesses. I've received a certificate in Project Management from UCLA, and I am a member of PMI. I have expertise in Active Directory, Open Directory, VMWare, Windows, Mac OSX, *nix, Exchange, IIS, Cisco, Forefront TMG, MARS, ACS, CSA, EMC, NetApp, and Websense. I've worked in all aspects of I.T., from end-user support to engineering and design.
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