Finance and stockbrokers ABN Amro Morgans have denied claims from a ZDNet Australia reader, who wished to remain anonymous, that parts of its network have been struck by the Klez worm.
Ken Leung, IT manager at ABN Amro Morgans, confirmed it had carried out a shutdown of its network between midnight and 4am this morning. However, Leung said this was to carry out precautionary measures. -We just had to make sure our virus scanning and virus protection systems were all working," he said.
According to Leung, it had seen a lot of incidence of the virus coming in, and had been trapping it, so had wanted to make sure its system was operational in the morning when business commenced.
Leung said the stokebroker had two IT staff working on it overnight. -This is only a precautionary measure -- we do it after hours -- it doesn't mean we've been hit by a virus at all."
Other ZDNet Australia readers have also responded to earlier reports that the Klez worm was still active in Australia. One Sydney IT manager said thousands of its machines had been infected. -Klez has got us hard," the IT pro said. -[It] took over and e-mailed our entire world contacts."
Andrew Gordon, managed services architect at anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro, said there were still quite a few people out there who were still getting infected, or who were infected at the moment and didn't know about it.
Although Gordon said it had been slowing down, the vendor has still had about 2000 infections per day reported worldwide. Currently in Australia and New Zealand it has 1610 confirmed infections since April 17, with 86,000 confirmed worldwide.
