A quick test by PC World shows that many antivirus programs fail to catch today's nasty Storm Worm variant.
A huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus.
At 2:30 p.m. I uploaded the attachment to Virustotal.com, which uses many different antivirus programs to scan uploads. Of 31 programs, only 4--ClamAV, eSafe, Kaspersky, and Symantec--reported a virus.