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"Locky" Virus Email

Hello,

We just had a virus called "Locky" spreading out in our network and locking files coming from a user that clicked on a suspicous attachment in an email, I was wondering why Sophos PureMessage didn't recognize that mail to be a suspicious one.. it recognize most of all other spam/viruses, is it not enough known yet to be blocked/deleted?

Thankk you.

Richard

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0 ZiggyEdman over 8 years ago

Hey Remabec,

I just checked the virus info on SOPHOS website and appears that today was "zero day" for Locky.

www.sophos.com/.../detailed-analysis.aspx

Protection available since: 25 Feb 2016 22:38:34 (GMT)

Maybe the antivirus on Puremessage wasn't up to date with the definitions, when you were hit by the virus.
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0 ZiggyEdman over 8 years ago

Hey Remabec,

I just checked the virus info on SOPHOS website and appears that today was "zero day" for Locky.

www.sophos.com/.../detailed-analysis.aspx

Protection available since: 25 Feb 2016 22:38:34 (GMT)

Maybe the antivirus on Puremessage wasn't up to date with the definitions, when you were hit by the virus.
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0 Remabec over 8 years ago in reply to ZiggyEdman

Hi Ziggyedman,

Thank you very much for the information, the attack occured february 24 so it would explain a lot. We were able to handle it fast thanks to the fast reactive users and alleliua for the backups.

Have a great day.
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