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BitDefender takes the sass out of Sasser

PC Welt, the leading German IT and computing magazine, continues the series of articles about reaction times. BitDefender Labs have established a tradition of speed, which was confirmed yet again in the latest outbreak
(http://www.pcwelt.de/news/viren_bugs/39734/2.html).

How fast antivirus producers can react to new epidemics is, simply put, a measure of how safe their customers are. BitDefender antivirus researchers proved once again that they care about their users, by one of the first four companies in the world to issue a Sasser.A signature, within an hour of the best performance (at 07:30 GMT).

The Sasser.A worm was itself plagued with coding errors, which prevented it from spreading effectively, leading its author to release another variant the very same day. Fortunately, BitDefender Labs were the very first to issue a signature update for the Sasser.B, at 17:35 GMT.

BitDefender has released a clean-up tool for Sasser on May 1st 2004. Microsoft has issued its first version of a Sasser clean-up tool on May 2nd 2004.

Other references:
http://www.pcwelt.de/news/viren_bugs/39734
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/virusinfo.php?menu_id=1&v_id=248
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15757

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