From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 17:28:05 PDT
At 12:10 -0700 2001-06-12, Aron Roberts wrote:
> Last Friday, the MacInTouch Web site described "Simpsons
>Episodes," a new Macintosh trojan ...
>
> Both NAI/McAfee (Virex) and Symantec (Norton Anti-Virus) are aware
>of this trojan/worm, per the links below, and will likely address it
>in their next monthly virus definitions updates, due at or around
>July 1, 2001. (If there are any interim updates prior to that date,
>we'll be sure to announce them to these lists.)
Symantec has already released an update to Norton Anti-Virus dated
2001-06-11 which detects the 'Mac.Simpsons@mm' trojan/worm.
Users of this anti-virus utility can update their anti-virus
protection by running the associated "LiveUpdate" application.
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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