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W32.Downadup Information

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W32.Downadup.A and W32.Downadup.B Statistics: https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/malicious_code/article-id/226.

 

W32.Downadup: Peer-to-Peer Payload Distribution: https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/malicious_code/article-id/227.

 

Message Edited by Floating_Red on 01-19-2009 09:17 PM
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Re: W32.Downadup Information

Thanx Floating. we should start a new section for these entries
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Re: W32.Downadup Information

Downadup: Geo-location, Fingerprinting, and Piracy - https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/malicious_code/article-id/228.

 

Downadup: A Lock with No Key - https://forums.symantec.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/malicious_code/article-id/229.

 

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Re: W32.Downadup Information

Thanx man
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Stu wrote:
Thanx man

 

You're welcome.  :)

 

Will keep you up-to-date.

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Re: W32.Downadup Information

Good job. Will ask one of the Guys if we can make it some special item
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Stu wrote:
Good job. Will ask one of the Guys if we can make it some special item

 

"Special"?  Item? 

 

Like I said, I'd be happy to Update this whenever new Blogs get Released, or whatever.  :D

 

If any Users would like me to P.M. them whenever a new Blog gets Published, please let me know and I'd be happy to do that for you.

 

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so if I understand all correctly, if we have Norton antivirus or NIS updated and the patch from microsoft, we should be ok, right?
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NY1986 wrote:
so if I understand all correctly, if we have Norton antivirus or NIS updated and the patch from microsoft, we should be ok, right?

Correct. So there is no need to worry

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NY1986 wrote:
so if I understand all correctly, if we have Norton antivirus or NIS updated and the patch from microsoft, we should be ok, right?

 

If you read the Blogs I Posted [Web Links], you will have read that even Patched computers and up-to-date Anti-Virus Products are getting Infected.  Be careful out there!

 

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