Sophos has received a significant number of enquiries about a new computer worm called "Klez.H" following media reports and alerts by other anti-virus vendors.
Sophos would like to reassure its customers that, unlike users of other anti-virus products, if they have kept their Sophos anti-virus software up-to-date they have been capable of protecting against this latest variant of the destructive Klez worm for over two months.
The March 2002 (3.55) edition of Sophos Anti-Virus protects against the new Klez variant via its detection of an earlier variant, W32/Klez-G, and protection was first made available on 7 February 2002. Therefore, Sophos will detect "Klez.H" as "W32/Klez-G". You can read more about W32/Klez-G at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32klezg.html
Sophos reminds users that its MailMonitor for SMTP on Windows NT/2000 gateway product can dramatically reduce the threat of new and unknown viruses. Through its innovative threat reduction technology it is capable of blocking dangerous file types from entering your organisation. More details on the threat reduction technology can be found at: http://www.netxactics.co.za
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