SecureData, an erp.com company and the exclusive sub-Saharan distributors of Trend Micro, a leading provider of Internet virus protection, announces the immediate availability of protection for the recently discovered TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A, a new email spamming virus. TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A is a portable executable (PE) Trojan that spreads quickly by spamming itself out in email using Microsoft Outlook. This latest Trojan is a variant of the previous Trojan, known as TROJ_MYPICS.
Many people will want to see the movie, so they will therefore click on the attachment, which is just what the virus writer is counting on. With Trend Micro having received reports from customers in the United States, they believe that this latest Trojan is "in the wild" and has developed detection for TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A. Trend Micro customers who are suing the email content filtering tool, eManger, can act immediately to prevent the entry of TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A with either ScanMail for Exchange at the Exchange Server or InterScan VirusWall at the Internet Gateway. The malicious code can be blocked by either filtering on the email subject header, message text, or attachment name.
SecureData has a bandage pattern available (811) to its customers and is currently posting protection (Pattern 812) to our website for customers to download at www.sd.co.za.
In addition, HouseCall, Trend Micro's free online virus scanner will be updated shortly to enable other concerned computer users to check their systems for the newest malicious exploit at www. antivirus.com
SecureData is issuing this alert to warn all computer users to exercise extreme caution when opening email attachments and to delete any email attachments that arrive with this file name and subject heading.
For more information on TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A and how it can be stopped, please contact SecureData Help Desk on tollfree: 080 802 8800.
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SecureData, An ERP.Com Company, Is A Managed Security Service Provider. SecureData Is The Exclusive Sub-Saharan Distributors Of Trend Micro, Providing Enterprise-Wide, Centrally Managed, Server-Based, Virus Protection, E-Mail Filtering And Internet Filtering Products And Services.
Concern About Internet Safety Has Created A Vigorous And Growing Market For Content Security Products And Services. Today, E-Mail Attachments Account For Over 50% Of Virus Infections, And Web-Based Malicious Mobile Code (Vandals) Is Widely Thought To Be The Predominant Content Threat Of The Near Future. SecureData, Brings Sub-Saharan Africa The Tools That Build Anti-Virus And Content Security Protection Into The Internet And Mail/Groupware Infrastructure.