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Relaxed holiday attitudes help BadTrans worm

...infected computers hit home email users and businesses this week. Known as BadTrans.B, the worm is spreading mainly due to people's relaxed approach... Read more

27 November, 2001 by Robert Lemos

British trojan launches weekend attack

...SirCam, according to British antivirus companies. The "B" variant of the W32/Badtrans@MM virus has been attacking home and corporate PCs installed with Microsoft... Read more

26 November, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe
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Astonsoft has prepared a free application to completely remove the I-Worm.Badtrans virus, together with infected files and any virus entries in the registry... Read more

24 January, 2002

Badtrans worm - it's bad

And not very transitory... The Badtrans worm is continuing to spread like wildfire, prompting anti-virus companies to... Read more

27 November, 2001 by Kate Hanaghan

Badtrans worm bad news for users

...warned computer users worldwide of a malicious worm carrying damaging malware. W32/Badtrans is a mass mailing internet worm, which spreads via email and automatically... Read more

26 November, 2001 by Pia Heikkila

Virus top ten: Badtrans still number one

That list in full... Read more

1 January, 2002 by silicon.com staff

New virus detected by Symantec

Trend Micro, AVX and Symantec say a new virus is spreading: BADTRANS.A, or w32.badtrans.13312@mm. AVX says the virus was detected... Read more

17 April, 2001 by ZDNet Italy

Top 10 viruses: A Christmas special

Badtrans didn't care if you'd been naughty or nice... The virulent... Read more

4 January, 2002 by Joey Gardiner

Why can't we stop the worms?

...to download it one machine at a time. For the moment, while Badtrans.B and Aliz are loose, I think Microsoft should offer one clearly... Read more

4 December, 2001 by Robert Vamosi

Bugbear set to stick around

...now believe the virus to be a modified version of the earlier Badtrans worm. It installs a backdoor that can be used by hackers to... Read more

7 October, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Bugbear rise knocks out Klez

...now believe the virus to be a modified version of the earlier Badtrans worm. Besides installing the backdoor, the worm disables various antivirus measures and... Read more

3 October, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Summer brings virus relief

...has shown over the past few months," Ducklin said. According to Ducklin, Badtrans and Magistr -- two older viruses -- still account for about 10 percent of... Read more

1 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden and Vivienne Fisher

W32 viruses top the charts

...statement from the company. Topping the list was Klez-H, followed by Badtrans-B, and then Elkern-C. Sircam made it in as number seven... Read more

5 July, 2002 by Vivienne Fisher

Chernobyl virus hitches a ride

...current rates of infection, Klez.h should surpass the No. 2 bug, BadTrans.b, in a few days. It'll have a long way to... Read more

7 May, 2002 by David Becker

Is it time to dump Internet Explorer?

...execute automatically in Outlook and Outlook Express, a favourite of recent viruses Badtrans.B and others. Rounding out the Microsoft package are fixes for buffer... Read more

14 February, 2002 by Robert Vamosi

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