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If ClamAV was running on the Linux Samba server, would it have caught
the 'bad file' so additional clients would not have been infected?  I
know, it wouldn't help with this virus?

I know you need to put it on and run it religiously including updates
BEFORE the nasties attack.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:55 PM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>> The samba logs should show you which clients are creating those files, so
>> the users will know they need to disinfect their machines.
>
> Thanks to the auto-run, likely every windows machine using this SAMBA
> share needs to be disinfected by now.
>
> Agree with read-only suggestions to keep it from spreading while you
> exterminate the client infections.
>
> Agree with Clam (or a windows AV) to find out what it is and how to
> remove it from windows primary disk. (It's won't be auto file on
> client c:)
>
>
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