The newShockwave virus arrived in Australia on Friday morning only to be stopped dead in its tracks. There's been just one report so far of an infection nationwide.
The virus, known as TROJ_Shockwave.a, arrived in Australia on Friday morning, only a few hours after three major corporations in the United States were infected.
However, Shockwave - which was reported to have been travelling at high speeds and deemed as destructive as the Love Bug and Melissa viruses - appears to have been controlled.
According to anti-virus software company Trend Micro, the main reason for the containment was that organisations had the whole weekend to put virus protection in place. Come Monday morning, users' inboxes were free of the contagious worm.
The virus disguises itself as "a great Shockwave flash movie" in the subject line of the email. If the file is executed, the worm will send itself as an attachment to every address listed in the infected users' address book. It also renames all JPG and ZIP files and moves them to the root directory.
So far, there has only been one report of an infection in Australia.
