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Experts play down Nolor worm threat

A new 'garden variety' worm is spreading on the Internet, but infection levels are remaining low - partly because users are getting smarter about attachments Read more

29 April, 2003 by Patrick Gray

Wallon virus wrecks Windows Media Player

A new mass-mailing virus called Wallon, which destroys Windows media player and is activated... Read more

12 May, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Sobig worm stomps on PCs

A new mass-mailing virus is on the loose, and has grown quickly over the... Read more

13 January, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Thanksgiving will bring a Sober hangover

...MessageLabs has seen in 2005. "This is the biggest outbreak of a mass-mailing virus all year. It is a concern because we thought we... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Tom Espiner

Mimail worm tops virus chart

A new Windows mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer... Read more

4 August, 2003 by Ina Fried

New Bugbear worm races up virus charts

...week, according to MessageLabs. Like the first worm, Bugbear.B is a mass-mailing virus that infects Windows PCs. After it infects a PC, the... Read more

5 June, 2003 by Iain Ferguson and Matthew Broersma

Trojan exploits Outlook Express

...far, but it warns that the exploit could be used in a mass-mailing virus or worm that would bypass many corporate content filters. Applicability... Read more

20 February, 2003 by John McCormick

The Week in Review: Lair of the SQL worm

...Beeb accidentally ploughed fans of The Archers radio drama with the a mass-mailing virus. On the other hand, for businesses the cyber-security picture... Read more

7 February, 2003 by ZDNet UK

Magistr.B's European focus baffles experts

...with an .exe, .bat, .bif, .pif or.com extension. Unlike the typical mass-mailing virus, the new variant can pull addresses from the files of... Read more

5 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Virus warning: Many-named worm wends westward

...so well, given that it has no distinguishing elements from any other mass-mailing virus. This is very simple compared to many of the more... Read more

14 March, 2002 by Joey Gardiner

Virus alert: Two worms on the horizon

...security patch for the Ants Trojan horse reported earlier last month. The mass-mailing virus attempts to send itself to all users found in the... Read more

29 October, 2001 by Pia Heikkila

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