Upgraded Virus Warning

Symantec has upgraded the W32.Netsky.B@mm virus to a Level 4 threat [On a scale of 1-5, 5 being highest].

W32.Netsky.B is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own engine to send itself to email addresses it finds when scanning the hard drives on your computer. This may clog mail servers or degrade network performance. It also searches drives C through Z for folder names containing "Share" or "Sharing," and then copies itself to those folders.

Identifiable Characteristics of emails containing the virus are:

From: (spoofed)
Subject: read it immediately
Body: information about you
Attachment: story.com

You would be amazed at how many instances we come across of businesses and individuals either having no virus protection or they have softawre installed but the last update was a "while ago". If the virus was introduced last week you will not be protected unless you updated your detection software since then.

The loss of time and cost for fixing the effects of virus attack are simply not worth avoiding the cost of detection software.