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Anti-Virus Vendor Response Times To Recent Sober Outbreak as Reported By AV-Test for November 28, 2005
This week, we present more antivirus software vendor response results from AV-Test,
an independent test lab that tracks dozens of antivirus products on
numerous platforms. Several new variants of the Sober worm have been
released in the last two weeks, and one of them was a significant
outbreak. Below AV-Test tracks anti-virus vendor response to that
outbreak. They used a sample with the MD5
0xcb73f0c6d0a20e191c21cc47dff1e471 and the size 55,390 bytes.
This first table shows antivirus vendors whose products found the
new strain without any updates. The outbreak started around 2005-11-21,
however, as the "new" variant was very similar to the old version many
AV products already detected this threat with older signatures. Even
so, we're impressed that many products detected this threat without a
specific signature.
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