Symantec has announced the availability of virus definition to detect, repair and protect Norton AntiVirus users against the VBS.LoveLetter.A virus. This definition is available immediately via Symantec^1s LiveUpdate, and can also be downloaded from
www.symantecstore.com
and
www.digitalriver.com/symantec
"Viruses like VBS.LoveLetter.A that are replicated through Internet applications such as e-mail and chat pose a great threat to companies and individuals because they are able to spread so rapidly through organisations and around the world," says Ron Moritz, Symantec's chief technical officer.
"As these types of Internet-borne viruses become more common, a multiple-line virus defence strategy will become critical, with corporations and Internet service providers offering their customers protection at the gateway before infected e-mails even enter the user's in-box," he adds.
Symantec's AntiVirus Research Centre began receiving reports regarding this worm early on 4 May. This worm appears to originate from the Asia Pacific region. Distribution of the virus is widespread and hundreds of thousands of machines are reported infected.
The virus also spreads via Internet relay chat and infects files on local and remote drives including files with extensions vbs, vbe, js, sje, css, wsh, sct, hta, jpg, jpeg, mp3, mp2, as well as others.
In addition, it will delete the following files:
MSKernel32.vbs in the Windows system directory
Win32DLL.vbs in the Windows directory
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs in the Windows System directory
WinFAT32.EXE in the Internet download directory
WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE in the Internet download directory
Script.ini in the mIRC directory.
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