RE: W32.Nimda Infecting Executables !!!! :-(

From: Steve Halligan (agent33at_private)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 07:56:58 PDT

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    > We obtained a virus update from Symantec and started scanning 
    > our systems.
    > Norton Anti-Virus has been finding numerous infected exe's including
    > wordpad.exe and many other executables. :-(
    > NAV is unable to clean the files and can only quarantine them :-(
    > Enjoy rebuilding your servers :-(
    > 
    
    McAfee is CLEANING the infected executables.  Norton is deleting them.  I
    suggest getting your hands on a copy of Virusscan or Netshield to do the
    cleaning portain at least.
    
    -Steve
    
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