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Worm claims Sussex Police computers
News Computer administrators have had a tough fortnight because the Nachi worm was released a few days after the MSBlast worm and around the same time as the latest variant of the Sobig email virus. Email security firm MessageLabs last week found that...
[August 27, 2003, 14:40]
Nimda hits broadband users
News The Nimda worm uses several methods to propagate itself, including email attachments and IRC, but it's most worrying property is a Code Red-like ability to exploit known weaknesses in Microsoft's IIS Web server software.The Nimda virus -- its full...
[September 19, 2001, 18:20]
Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
News The advent of email subsequently propelled email viruses such as the "I Love You" and the Anna Kournikova virus. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open source rival to Microsoft's...
[June 1, 2006, 13:20]
What happened Symantec?
Member Review Yesterday I couldn't send any email because I kept getting messages that (my ISP) couldn't start up its anti-virus software. Turned out the messages were coming from NIS and it was trying to convince my ISP to run virus scanning on my emails.
[March 17, 2004, 13:31]
Bagle variant lacks teeth
News The latest variant of the Bagle virus arrives as an attachment -- called "foto.zip" -- to an email message. The enhanced virus also will open a back door into the victim's computer to create an email relay, which can be used by spammers to route...
[September 2, 2004, 8:45]
Another day, another virus
News Mikko Hypponen, Data Fellows' manager of anti-virus research, who also got this obnoxious package, popped it open and found a long, inane message that ended with: "you should becareful what you get from an email.
[April 8, 1999, 16:48]
Easynet sends warnings to virus victims
News But the company warned on Thursday that firms could experience secondary effects as the virus tries to propagate itself by harvesting email addresses on an infected machine. A UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) is contacting customers it believes...
[January 30, 2006, 10:55]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News While the virus doesn't harm data on a computer it infects, it can send out a random file from the PC as an attachment along with the email that carries the worm, potentially leaking confidential information from an infected computer.
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Sophos Anti-Virus 3.7 review
Reviews Sophos also provides complimentary email support, a standard feature among anti-virus vendors. Sophos's interface shows a scan's progress, giving you a clear idea of how long a virus checkup will take.
[September 16, 2003, 15:15]
First handheld Trojan emerges
News Kaspersky Labs said it believes the bug was probably written by a Russian virus coder, noting that the version it saw was attached to an email with a Russian sender address and Russian text inside. Last month, researchers identified the first...
[August 6, 2004, 8:40]
Jane Wakefield: Have you caught the love bug?
News I took a look at the virus, described by one alleged expert as "beautiful" and failed to be moved by it. A slightly bemused spokesman for the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) seemed unaware of how the virus had found its way into the system...
[May 5, 2000, 10:13]
Counteragent
Downloads Counteragent 2 enables virus filtering by using ClamAV and spam filtering using SpamAssassin. Counteragent 2 automatically checks hourly for updates to the virus definition files and installs them when new versions are available.
[June 28, 2006, 8:00]
New Outlook bug can sting with spam
News It's the 'Good Times virus' come true. A virus writer could use this code to create a dangerous self-replicating worm. Take me to the Virus Workshop A new method for attacking computers connected to the Internet allows vandals to take control of a...
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Klez worm on the loose again
News While MessageLabs rates the virus as a low threat, Shipp said the rating is updated periodically, and he expects it to reach a high rating when it does update. The author has changed enough of the bits to get past most virus programs," Shipp said.
[April 18, 2002, 8:50]
Italy struck by CommWarrior infection
News The mobile phone virus CommWarrior recently surfaced in Italy, in a sign that destructiveness of the Symbian OS nemesis is reaching a boil after simmering for months. As feared, the virus is showing its propensity for spreading.
[May 18, 2005, 10:40]
Klez virus passes confidential info
News This is not the first time a virus has leaked information, however. Text, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), Adobe Acrobat and Excel files are included in the types of documents that the virus can forward, but other files that the worm could attach...
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Trial date set for Kournikova suspect
News Masquerading as a picture of the Russian tennis star, the Visual Basic virus tricked victims into double-clicking on it, which automatically forwarded it to all the email addresses in a target's address book.
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
Y2K hoax a 'serious issue', says Microsoft
News The company also recommends that users keep their anti-virus files updated. More information about the virus is available at www.microsoft.com/y2k/hoax/hoax2.htm. Another year 2000 email hoax is circulating the Internet, and it is being described...
[September 17, 1999, 16:22]
Mimail worm tops virus chart
News A new Windows mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user's network administrator, began infecting systems on Friday and quickly rose to the top of the virus charts on Monday.
[August 4, 2003, 8:40]
Bagle worm spawns five siblings
News This means that enterprises are unlikely to detect the virus at the perimeter because .zip files are not usually blocked and the encryption means that antivirus scanners will not be able to unzip the file: "This way they get through many gateway...
[March 1, 2004, 12:45]
