A computer worm referred
to as Gaobot, is currently infecting
computers across the Internet.
This worm takes advantage
of several vulnerabilities announced and
fixed by Microsoft at least 30 days
ago. It can also use backdoors created
by the Beagle and MyDoom families of
worms.
The early variants of
Gaobot are not particularly dangerous,
but more damaging versions are likely to
be on the way soon.
Infection is easily
avoided by using an anti-virus tool
like Norton Anti-Virus or MacAfee,
and making sure that
all Windows computers have the latest
updates from Microsoft via the Auto
Update feature.
These procedures will
also protect you from the Sasser worm as
well.
If you have any
additional questions regarding internet
security or how to handle viruses, spam
or spy ware please contact me.
