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Patches released for 'critical' Windows flaws
News The company had previously released a configuration change designed to help prevent infection, but has yet to release a patch. Microsoft on Tuesday announced seven new security updates for Windows, including two that address "critical...
[July 14, 2004, 9:05]
JPEG worm found on Instant Messenger
News Experts at the SysAdmin Audit Network Security (SANS) Institute said that the worm is still in its infancy as it has only received two reports of infection. A worm that exploits the recently discovered JPEG vulnerability has been discovered...
[September 30, 2004, 17:45]
Lovgate worm mutates, spreads in Asia
News WORM_LOVGATE.J, named after the virus program, is currently spreading in Korea, from where there has been a "significant number of infection reports", according the statement from Trend Micro. Security firm Trend Micro has reported seeing the virus...
[May 14, 2003, 8:35]
MyParty worm is an unwelcome guest
News Initial reports of the mass-mailing worm were received on Sunday evening, and the rate of infection steadily increased overnight and on Monday morning. The first email worm to use the .com extension has been spotted in the wild over the weekend.
[January 28, 2002, 12:51]
Security firm probes reports of car viruses
News The user said that the infection occurred via a mobile phone. Antivirus companies are researching reports that computer viruses have attacked the onboard computers of cars. Kaspersky Labs was contacted last weekend by a user asking how to disinfect...
[January 26, 2005, 13:35]
SirCam slowing, but threat lingers
News Although the weekend saw a small drop in the rate of infection, the number of copies of SirCam caught daily by MessageLabs continued to grow early this week, topping 10,000 messages on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
[July 27, 2001, 9:30]
A worm belies Apple's perfection
Talkback So far after 11 months of this year, the same number of mac users destroyed by UFO is equal to the number of mac users with a real infection (any of any kind - not just malware). NO COMMENT NECESSARY A UFO could crash into the power pole outside...
[November 5, 2004, 20:03]
Eliminate Malware by Controlling Application Use
Talkback Out of the 99% of enterprises with anti-virus protection, 62% still suffered a malware infection. This report draws our attention to the fact that once again, the battle to protect a network from malware has proved insurmountable.
[November 19, 2008, 7:39]
Outsmart spyware review
Reviews System Restore, part of Windows XP, offers a quick and easy way to remove such a spyware infection -- if you catch it early enough. It's a sad fact, but the more suspicious and paranoid you are, the more likely you are to avoid a spyware infection.
[January 24, 2005, 11:20]
Reduce OS X security threats - ignore security software
Leader Not only were these vulnerabilities growing at an alarming rate, said the release, but "as more companies deploy Mac systems running on the Intel platform in mixed environments, the risk of infection will most likely increase.
[May 5, 2006, 16:20]
Number's up for malware creators
Leader That's not a great deal of help to users and IT managers, who not only have to work out what sort of infection they've got but how to refer to it when selecting the cure - often having to make up their own names, at least at first.
[October 6, 2005, 14:40]
Cleaning up after the MSBlast worm
Talkback Still working on the source of the re-infection. PG, I hadn't bothered to check the numerous helpful sites on this lit'l bastard msblast.exe. But I seem to recall Dan Rather talking about it.but I digress.
[August 13, 2003, 15:17]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback Norton couldn't even find the infection in a file known to be infected! My computer got slower and slower. It started shutting down without warning. Loads of "illegal operation" warnings. I had Norton 2005 updated earlier in the week but one...
[November 6, 2005, 19:41]
Time for change?
Talkback Aren't there some new ideas on how to put security steps in place to avoid wide spread email viruses having such a high infection rate? Yes the standard internet user needs to be more aware of what they open in there email client but sadly the...
[January 24, 2007, 8:40]
Mobile phone worms pose massive threat
News Watson Research Centre in New York, say that mobile phone designers will have to come up with ways to protect phones against infection from malicious code. Future programmable mobile phones will spawn more virulent and potentially more dangerous...
[May 19, 2000, 14:31]
Nasa and the virus
Blog The laptops carried by astronauts reportedly do not have any anti-virus software on them to prevent infection," said the BBC. Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity.
[August 28, 2008, 17:31]
How cooperation can beat viruses
Talkback But, underneath it is a couple of useful, potentially great products for preventing company wide infection from rogue RAS/VPN, network, or wireless connected notebooks.http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns171/ns413...
[April 21, 2004, 15:08]
Harder to stop and remove than you think
Talkback Following the steps from a site I found - downadup.com - downloading a free removal tool, disabling AutoPlay, and repairing the registry - you can remove this virus and protect from infection. Once you HAVE the virus, you can no longer download...
[January 25, 2009, 16:39]
Welsh virus writer gets two years
News Although the viruses barely made the news at the time, the level of infection was enough to convince the Southwark Crown Court that Vallor's actions were deserving of a custodial sentence. A Welsh virus writer has been sentenced to two years in...
[January 22, 2003, 9:44]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog At the stroke of midnight, it rises once more from its dormancy in the womb of Microsoft's infection-prone web server software and spews evil progeny across the Internet. Tuesday End of the month coming up, which used to just mean payday and a...
[August 3, 2001, 15:55]
