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(She knew she had this coming! )

I came home last night to find out that she’d opened an email from a “secret admirer”. This ended up infecting our workstation with the W32/Mugly.b worm – which is a mass mailing SDBot variant.

Apparently, it was released in the wild just yesterday, and our virus scanning software, avast!, had not yet updated itself with definitions that included it.

There are some further things that failed that shouldn’t have. ASSP should have blocked the attachment, and our email server’s own virus scan software, ClamAV, would have had a go at it also before it finally came through to our workstation. (But its own definition files might have been too slow too.)

Assuming that your virus software will always protect you against whatever you do with strange incoming email is never the best policy.