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Skype worm wriggles onto Windows machines
Blog Skype is reporting a worm that affects Skype chat users with windows machines. Once it has infected one person's machine, the worm, called “w32/Ramex.A”, sends a chat message to other Skype users asking them to click on a web link.
[September 11, 2007, 12:40]
Symbian worm in the wild
Blog There aren't that many out there, but there's a new Symbian worm in town. According to antivirus company F-Secure, what makes this Symbian worm different is that it attempts to propagate using common media file extensions, rather than standard SIS...
[January 25, 2008, 17:25]
A Tailored Fix For The Downadup Worm
Blog This will then tell you of any detections specifically realating to the downadup worm. A useful tool for fixing downadup can be taken from here. This is an auto command line scan designed to hunt down and root out downadup.
[January 27, 2009, 7:56]
Attacks target WINS worm hole
Blog The Sans Internet Storm Center is reporting that malicious hackers have kicked off a series of attacks on a flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), according to Ryan Naraine over at sister site ZDNet.com.
[August 20, 2009, 15:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Internet Worm Brings Down SCO! Is it the most virulent worm yet? The rampaging worm ("$30 billion damage done! The BBC even publishes an article saying that the worm is part of the campaign of open-source supporters against SCO: anyone got Hutton's...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Wednesday
Blog Bristol scientists in worm-throttling shock! When your computer gets hit by a worm, it starts to send out copies at a rate of hundreds per second. Wednesday 11/12/2002 That's more like it! But put aside those images of welly-clad farmers in white...
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No, it's a good old fashioned worm, flashing across the Internet through port 445 and burrowing through a vulnerability in Windows 2000. It's been a while since a worm did as much high-profile damage as Zotob has, although once again it hasn't...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
Valentine's Day brings spam and scams, warns FBI
Blog No less an organ than the FBI has warned that Storm worm spammers are seeking to extend their network of compromised computers. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus.
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
Kaspersky, Grisoft, F-Secure fail VB100 security test
Blog Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0.2.621 failed to detect a network worm called allaple. According to Kaspersky senior technology consultant David Emm, Kaspersky first added a signature for the worm in February.
[June 7, 2007, 17:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But if you're relying on security software -- oh, let's say ISS's BlackIce or RealSecure -- to defend yourself from a nasty beastie -- the ill-named Witty worm, for the sake of argument -- and you subsequently find that the worm takes advantage of...
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Back in the office, I'm at first inclined to blame my befuddlement when I read a report about a talking worm. Special manga animations should pop up while the worm creators are hard at work, distracting them and seeding doubt in their minds.
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A teenage German hacker, currently on trial for creating the Sasser worm and also believed to be behind Netsky, has been hired by a firewall company. Monday 20/09/2004 As Jo Best's report says, the company may have to wait for a bit before the...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We've suffered at the hands of the virus writers and worm-mongers. Tuesday 27/04/2004 They've probed our disks, erased our files, clogged our mailboxes and stolen our passwords: indignity enough at the hands of these anonymous monsters?
[April 30, 2004, 13:15]
Downadup infection numbers
Blog Estimates vary wildly as to how many PCs have been infected by Downadup, the virulent computer worm also known as Conficker and Kido. The Telegraph puts the number at over 15 million, while security company F-Secure told ZDNet UK on Thursday that...
[January 26, 2009, 16:34]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Today, though, we're all on Code Red -- the latest monstrous worm chewing its way through the Internet. Tuesday End of the month coming up, which used to just mean payday and a vague feeling of dread concerning Time's winged Austin Montego.
[August 3, 2001, 15:55]
So that's what viruses look like
Blog The security firm has helpfully issued a range of pictures illustrating various types of malware, from rootkits (man injecting something into the bottom of a tree) to the Love Bug worm (buxom woman with chainsaw) to zombie attacks (guess) to, er...
[April 11, 2007, 16:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But of course the photos are the worm. Friday 19/11/2004 Sometimes it only takes the smallest thing to brighten up one's day. Take this apparently innocuous quote from the point man of the Sophos antivirus hit squad, Graham Cluley: "They [the...
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If only BT had listened then, it would have saved a lot of money and the embarrassment today of losing ADSL service because its servers got spiked with the Nimda worm. Wednesday 19/09/01 It's taken nearly three years, but one small victory for...
[September 24, 2001, 12:49]
Strange Skype Network Activity - Even on Linux
Blog Another possibility would be some sort of Skype virus or worm? I have a few contacts with whom I still chat on Skype, so I still start it from time to time. Yesterday I started it in the morning, and then got distracted and forgot to stop it when...
[August 18, 2008, 8:03]
Wednesday
Blog We set to work, and soon ascertain that the Reverend Goodwins has been infected by this week's star worm, Bugbear. Wednesday 2/10/2002 Picture the scene of domestic tranquillity chez moi this evening.
[October 4, 2002, 18:06]
