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Things I didn't know about Gmail, volume one...
Blog The other Bernie Badger would have to be Bernie.Badger2 or some such variant: his colleagues, suppliers and so on had probably mistyped or guessed wrongly. That's not a problem if you've got an unusual name, and if you've got a very common one you...
[July 28, 2008, 16:11]
Spies hit Disney? No, just Melissa
News The Melissa virus, which struck late last March, spawned a number of copycats, including Melissa.A -- the variant that hit Disney. The variant does not destroy any data on the infected system. The Melissa virus was behind an email spam from Walt...
[November 18, 1999, 14:24]
Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist
News The payload of the .ki variant of the Trojan was activated when users attempted to log in to the Nordea online banking site. The Metropolitan Police warned in October last year that thousands of UK users had been affected by a variant of the...
[January 19, 2007, 14:17]
Worm alert! LOVELETTER gets nastier
News The current variant also adds a twist found in other viruses: Polymorphism. Click here for Protection against the dangerous new ILOVEYOU variant. Security software maker Symantec warned computer users and businesses of a new, destructive worm...
[May 19, 2000, 8:33]
Melissa mutates: Virus variants detected
News Above all, they say that it wouldn't be hard to create a variant of Melissa that uses MAPI, an e-mail standard, to create a virus that spreads by co-opting functions in all e-mail programs. Already, a variant with a blank subject line has emerged...
[March 30, 1999, 11:27]
Bugbear tops virus charts
News W32/Bugbear-A (Bugbear worm) 29.4 per cent W32/Braid-A (Braid worm) 8.5 per cent W32/Klez-H (Klez variant) 7.7 per cent W32/Opaserv-A (Opaserv worm) 5.4 per cent W32/Opaserv-C (Opaserv variant) 5.1 per cent W32/Flcss (FunLove worm) 4.6 per cent...
[December 2, 2002, 7:38]
Klez worm refuses to die
News The Klez.h variant, which appeared in mid-April, infects PCs whose users open the attachment to an infected e-mail. Overall, the Klez.h variant has been extremely successful. The Klez.h variant did manage to top the charts of computer viruses in...
[May 20, 2002, 9:19]
Identity theft ring affects at least 50 banks
News The data theft was initially reported to be carried out by a modified variant of a spyware application, called CoolWebSearch (CWS), but Sunbelt has now found that the activities are carried out by a separate Trojan, which is downloaded at the same...
[August 8, 2005, 18:30]
Star Wars used as hook for phishers
News The code, a variant of the Gaobot virus, could give the attacker remote control over the victim's PC, he said. McAfee will update its antivirus software on Wednesday to detect this latest Gaobot variant, Shmugar said.
[May 25, 2005, 9:15]
Intel puts new server chips on roadmap
News Itanium 2 development after Montecito will include dual-processor (DP) platform chip Millington and a low-voltage version, and a Montecito successor called Montvale and its own low-voltage variant. Multi- and dual-processor Xeons are also on the...
[September 8, 2004, 12:45]
Redesi worm reformats C: drives
News The second variant arrives with headers such as: "Scientists have found traces of the HIV virus in cows milk.here is the proof -- Will", "Yay. This variant contains the text: "heh. A new type of Lager / Weed variant.sorted !
[October 18, 2001, 17:27]
Virus morphs into 'Mad Cow'
News Schrader believes a host of variant viruses will surface in the wake of Melissa. Meanwhile, anti-virus researchers also are learning new details of the so-called Papa virus, a Melissa variant that is carried by Excel documents and sends out 60 e...
[March 31, 1999, 10:38]
Is your software spawning variants?
Blog In fact, "variant management" as a discipline in its own right is starting to be openly discussed as the solution to these challenges. Are you under attack from the spawning variant swarms? Is variant management within your head-space?
[February 22, 2008, 11:55]
Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative
News But if Sun chooses to release Solaris under the CDDL -- and it hasn't committed to doing so -- the choice is likely to prevent direct cross-pollination between the Unix variant and its prime competitor, Linux.
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Young worm-creator arrested in US
News The Justice Department called the worm a "variant of the Blaster computer worm. The MSBlast.B variant achieved only modest distribution, infecting some 7,000 computers, according to Justice Department estimates.
[September 29, 2003, 8:54]
She's back, only different
News A variant, Melissa.U, grabbed only four addresses. It used Messaging API commands for opening Outlook address books differently than a typical Melissa variant. IT managers wondering why variants of the Melissa virus are proliferating need only look...
[October 25, 1999, 8:12]
Kazaa and eDonkey brace for attack from Netsky
News Marco Righetti, virus coordinator at Trend Labs, the research arm of antivirus firm Trend Micro, said that although he is worried that the Netsky.Q variant will cause the targeted sites some problems, Netsky.T is not spreading very fast and at the...
[April 6, 2004, 15:05]
People often say to me: Rupert, how may I play the Intel Drinking Game?
Blog In the Itanium variant, each further mention of the Law means another drink must be taken, but it must be twice the size of the previous drink while remaining at the same strength. In the Xeon variant, each drink must be the same size as the...
[April 23, 2007, 22:00]
Antivirus firms rebut naming accusations
News If the user is up-to-date and protected, would it really matter if one vendor calls it variant X and another labels it variant Z? Or we'll think that it's not a variant, then learn that it is, or think something is new and then later realise it's a...
[January 9, 2003, 10:06]
Taiwanese university reveals CIH author
News The most common, year-old variant is known as Chernobyl, because the date on which it activates is April 26, the anniversary of the nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union. That variant was the main culprit in Monday's attack.
[April 29, 1999, 16:45]
