Sasser Worm And Nav

[jtk]

Does anybody know why my fully updated
Norton AntiVirus did not find and stop the
Sasser worm from infecting my PC.

all the best
JTK

[mikeh420]

Sorry to hear that

Windows Update and/or a Firewall of some sort would probably have prevented the worm infection, and NAV does occasionally miss some problems. A combination of these three kept my PC from getting infected.

This Sasser worm is a tough one, needs no "operator action", it finds YOU! They should string up that kid in Germany who wrote it!

[WarezRocks]

Last week I made several hundred dollars removing Sasser from infected PCs and Workstations. All but one was using Norton [it was running McAfee]. None had the update patch from Microsoft. All the Norton 'protected systems' had Live Update running.

I do like one thing about Norton/Symantc however... the Symantec Sasser remover tool worked nicely


As usual they [Norton/Symantc] were a day late and a dollar short.


Norton SUX!

[jtk]

Thanks for your reply, maybe macafee is better than norton antivirus.
Our company a FM Radio station and newspaper also got sasser worm it took all day to get rid of it.

Thanks again
JTK

[KingCobra]

Does anyone know of anyone with Nod32 that got the virus?

[Dudelive]

I think part of it is the ISP, the larger ISP's usually have to keep their system clean in order to please all the consumers. They don't want a lot of mad customers getting something on their computer that they (the company) could possible prevent.

Just my opinion.

Thanks
Dudelive

[sigmazeta314]

I run NOD32 and have had NO problems at home or work PC's. I used to run McAfee and have used Norton. I hated Norton and McAfee was good but a big resource hog (not as big as Norton though). I really like NOD32 and AVG Antivirus has kept another comuter I run safe and sound. But it was likely not the antivirus that kept the bug out but Zone Alarm Pro...a good firewall is a MUST.