[Arthalion]

This will no doubt explode today across the Internet. The spread of this virus has been "slow" for a reason...it was released on a weekend, so most business machines were simply turned off. As these PC's are powered up for the coming work week...boom.

Where I work, the operations guys were given carte blanche after the last rounds of worm infections to keep it from happening again. Using a combination of intelligent routers, carefully located segmenting firewalls, VLANS, and a new forced update system to keep everyone patched up, we're crossing our fingers that this one wont hit us in any significant way.

[general_re]

Using a combination of intelligent routers, carefully located segmenting firewalls, VLANS, and a new forced update system to keep everyone patched up, we're crossing our fingers that this one wont hit us in any significant way.

Block inbound traffic on TCP port 445.