New worm threat flagged

The anti-virus community had around eight to 12 hours from around 1pm to prepare for the suspected new worm, according to MessageLabs. The filtering company says the timeframe is based on the head-start its vigil over e-mail systems gives it over traditional anti-virus vendors. The company said the attachment was sufficiently different from other mass mailing worms in circulation -- such as the MyDoom variants -- for it to class the threat as new.

MessageLabs spokesperson, David Banes, said its scanning engine had filtered around 800 e-mails bound for its clients which carried a suspicious 12-kilobyte pay load.

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