Does AVAST protect against this worm?

I’m just curious if Avast protects against this worm?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060131/ap_on_hi_te/worm_warning_1

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904420.mspx

Yes it does. It detects it as Win32:VB-XX (XX replaced by variant tagging model).

It’s related with this thread:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=18935.0