IMAGE YOUR SYSTEM NOW BEFORE THE KAMA SUTRA WORM HITS

ACRONIS RECOMMENDS IT MANAGERS, 
END USERS MAINTAIN CURRENT BACKUP IMAGES
OF THEIR HARD DISKS IN CASE DISASTER HITS

KAMA SUTRA WORM DUE TO HIT FEB. 3; 
OTHER DISASTERS COULD HIT AT ANY TIME


January 31, 2006, BURLINGTON, MA - Acronis Inc.  (http://www.acronis.com),
the technological leader in storage management software, warned corporate
and end-users alike to make a disk image of all servers and workstation hard
disk in case their systems are compromised by the Kama Sutra Worm.  The worm
is due to hit Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.

The worm has the potential to wipe out user data and significantly
compromise corporate servers, warn the antispyware security experts at
Acronis.  The company's security team recommends that users have not only a
current backup image of their hard disk, but also up-to-date antispyware and
antivirus software. According to published reports, the worm could have
subject lines that read "the best videoclip ever," "give me a kiss," or
"school girl fantasies gone bad." The worm is expected to be embedded in an
attachment sent with the email message.

According to CIO Today, "on the third of each month, the worm will attempt
to disable existing antivirus and firewall software and also will delete
specific files, such as Microsoft Office documents."  

"The best defense against any such malware attack is simply not to open mail
attachments from senders you do not know," said Acronis marketing director
Stephen Lawton. "However, IT managers and users can put policies in place so
that they are protected should a computer become infected. We strongly
recommend that all users create an image of their computer systems before
the damage is done and keep those images up to date by regularly backing up
their systems. That way, if your system is damaged by a virus or other
disaster, you will be able to restore the system to a known, working
condition in minutes, not hours or days.

"Creating just a file-based backup isn't enough. For example, if this worm
crashes the hard disk, the user will need to restore the entire system to
exactly how it was before the system was corrupted," he continued. "While
having backups of user documents is helpful, the real time-consuming part of
recovering from a systems failure is reinstalling the operating system and
applications, installing all of the necessary registration codes, and
reconfiguring the software and network settings."

"Jumping on the bandwagon of the latest disaster - be it Hurricane Katrina
or a malicious malware attack, is not the right approach to disaster
recovery," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "A calm, reasoned,
policy-based approach that covers all possible threats is what is needed to
ensure that a company's corporate servers and workstations are protected.
Planning is a profitable and necessary exercise that, in many cases, can
prevent or mitigate damage from a potential catastrophic event."

Acronis is the developer of such award-winning products as the Acronis True
Image family of disk imaging, backup and disaster recovery software, and the
Acronis Privacy Expert family of corporate and consumer antispyware
products. Acronis has been protecting servers and workstations since 2000.
Details on Acronis' corporate disaster recovery products can be found at
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/choose-trueimage/.


 


About Acronis 

Acronis is an award-winning developer of storage management solutions for
enterprises and end-users.  With offices located across the globe, Acronis
is well positioned to address the needs of small- to mid-size businesses, as
well as the largest multi-national organizations, around the world.   The
company provides disaster recovery, backup and restore, deployment, disk
management, antispyware, privacy, data migration, and other storage
management products solutions that are technically advanced for
mission-critical applications and easy to use. For additional information,
please visit http://www.acronis.com <http://www.acronis.com%20/>>  or contact
Director of Marketing Stephen Lawton at stephen.lawton@acronis.com.