Email borne worm disables many anti-virus programs

From speedguide.net news: -

A new email worm is landing in email inboxes worldwide, disabling the anti-virus software of the unwary.

Dubbed ‘Here you Have’, it’s a new attack, with the first reported cases appearing yesterday. However, it’s similar to classic old-school mass-mailing viruses like Nimda, Melissa and the Anna Kournikova virus from 2001.

Symantec says the worm disables many common anti-virus products.

It arrives as an email asking the recipient to open a link. However, the link points to a malicious program file disguised as a PDF hosted on the internet. When the user clicks on the link, the malicious file - W32.Imsolk.B@mm - is downloaded and launched. This installs the worm onto the victim’s computer and emailing the original message to everyone in the infected user’s email address book.

Read more here: http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/51477-here-you-have-a-virus

Interesting how much of this malware is tied to Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash. They really suck about keeping them patched too.
Joe

Check this post http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r24787346-Its-Time-To-Take-Stock-Of-All-Of-This about how many false, or inaccurate, versions of this true story are circulating.

This should have been posted in the virus and worm section… :wink: …or in the " Security News " tread http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.0

and we already know
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=63729.0
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.msg538658#msg538658