Network virus

Time to talk to your employees about open email attachments and links again. We are seeing way to much of these lately. We along with most in IT support have been battling a wicked little virus for the past few months.

* It finds every shared folder on the network

* It makes tons of little infected programs named as every folder and file in the share.

* It hides the original files and folders

* It puts what’s called an “autorun” file inside the share so all a user has to do is open the network drive and they get infected.

* Or alternatively the end user opens the network drive and double click unknowingly on the file.

It doesn’t seem to matter what you have for security. We have seen machines with:

* Full security patching
* Latest antivirus
* A great filtering high end firewall
* Windows 7 Pro
* IE 9 or better

Today I really took a deep dive researching and everything I read says it is being installed by an American Express email/a UPS email/a Delta Airlines email or one of those tricky emails that tempt someone to open an attachment.

So as much I want to see every one on our patch maintenance. And I want to see everyone with a good firewall, antivirus, on and on… This email isn’t pushing you to purchase security. It’s asking you to stress to end users, not to open things unless they are sure. 100% sure. It’s costly, creates down time, and frankly it’s the last thing I want to have to bill for and spend your IT budget on. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Bret Erickson

Passkey Computer Services
763-546-8225
bret@passkeyinc.com