UNE’s new anti-virus scanning device had a busy day yesterday (December 10^th) with more than 2500 infected emails identified and blocked– and that’s just an average day at the office. 

UNE was targeted by 22 unique viruses, worms and other internet nasties yesterday with more than 2500 infected emails and attachments identified and blocked from the UNE network. But that’s all in a days work for the new anti-virus scanner installed earlier this year as part of the UNE network upgrade.

The most frequently blocked virus, with 1900 identified instances, was a Trojan downloader virus. These small viruses will secretly download and run other viruses and files. They are often used by online advertisers to push adware/spyware to users.

Also blocked yesterday were 658 instances of the worm Bagz.E. This family of worms will send itself to email addresses gathered from the infected computer. It will also try to turn off anti-virus applications and allow other viruses to gain access to the computer.

The new anti-virus scanner is one of twelve filters that incoming emails pass through before being delivered to UNE users.

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