F-secure has information on a fairly aggressive new email virus. Their name for it is VB.bi although it’s aliases are…. W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi depending on which AV vendor you check with. It’s a worm as well, in that it tries to spread through remote shares. It attempts to disable antivirus software as well. Here

F-Secure is warning about ads for a “leaked version” of Windows Messenger 8 beta. There is no public beta of this and it is a virus. If you download and run BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE, you won’t get a new chat client. Instead, your existing MSN Messenger will start to send download links to everyone in your contact

A new Beagle/Bagle variant is making the rounds. It comes in an almost empty email, as a ZIP attachment containing the worm as an EXE. The attachment name, email subject and sole text content of the email all seem to be male or female names. Keep your eyes peeled, especially if your users are reading

Antivirus software does not provide any reliable protection against current threats. Viruses like Sober tend to change every few hours well in advance of AV signature updates. The fact that an attachment did not get marked is no indication that it is harmless. We do receive reports of up to date versions of AV software

New Sober variant in the wild Yesterday we got some messages about a possible new variant of the Sober virus to be released today. The F-Secure Weblog was one of the sources that posted a press release of the Bavarian Police warning about the new variant. And looks like they got it right…At least according