Australian businesses are being warned to install patches and signature files to protect against a worm variant which has surfaced in the US and Europe.
This morning anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro issued a yellow (medium) alert for what it refers to as Worm_Fretheme.E. Anti-virus vendors sometimes use different names for worms, and incidents of the W32/frethem.f@mm variant have also been logged in countries such as the US.
Andrew Gordon, managed services architect at Trend Micro, said that although Australian businesses seem to have avoided infection by Worm_Fretheme.E to date, there had been infection reports from several of its business units around the world, particularly the US.
News source: ZDnet Australia
