Well, yesterday was an exciting day. We were seeing loads of these new
\npassword-protected zip-file viruses – the virus is inside an attachment,
\nthe password for which is included in the body of the email. <\/p>\n
Our copy of Sophos Anti-Virus<\/a> wasn’t detecting these zip files until late in the day – although it Got worried about the reliability and up-to-dateness of the usually reliable Sophos and so decided to install Quite like ClamAV, actually, seems like a nice bit of code and bang up-to-date. There is a copy of Norton Anti-Virus<\/a> on the desktop PCs too, just as a final line of defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, yesterday was an exciting day. We were seeing loads of these new password-protected zip-file viruses – the virus is inside an attachment, the password for which is included in the body of the email. Our copy of Sophos Anti-Virus wasn’t detecting these zip files until late in the day – although it was detecting… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwas detecting the files within the zip file if you actually opened them. I wanted to stop our users getting the messages at all, because they were bugging the hell out of me about it … “I’ve got this really strange email …”<\/i><\/p>\n
\nClam Anti-Virus<\/a> too (which is free and Free) – our AMaViS<\/a> message-scanner will support multiple virus
\nscanners. So now, any malware needs to be passed as clean by both Sophos and ClamAV to get through to the end-user.<\/p>\n