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From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

The "Security Tools" malware is about to drive me insane. My users keep 
managing to infect themselves with it, and we're having trouble stopping it.

They don't run with admin rights, so there's no real damage done to their 
systems and we can clean it up in about two minutes. But the time adds up, and 
I'm tired of my technicians having to waste time on it.

Our antimalware software is Microsoft's Forefront Client Security, and it's 
having a tough time catching this. Every time I get infected, I send the EXE to 
Microsoft and they update their definitions-but the EXE's used by the malware 
apparently change rapidly, and seem to constantly be a step ahead of FCS's 
definitions.

I can think of a couple of options that I know would stop it, like blocking all 
EXE's at our web filter or using group policy to limit the running of EXE's-but 
this would also prevent users from doing things like installing safe plug-ins 
from websites, so it's not a first resort.

Suggestions?



John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
www.taylor.k12.fl.us



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