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Resistant virus strains to hit the Net?

...but the virus took more than a year to spread. But the ExploreZip virus is sort of a digital platypus. It combines features of its... Read more

15 June, 1999 by ZDNet

ExploreZip virus mauls London company

The ExploreZip virus has caused widespread damage to the computer network of advertising and... Read more

7 December, 1999 by Will Knight

FBI goes after Worm creator

The FBI has issued an updated statement concerning the new ExploreZip computer virus. After warning that the virus has the potential to cause... Read more

14 June, 1999 by ZDNet

Worm hits corporate networks hard

...warned that once a single corporate user's PC was infected with ExploreZip, the worm can quickly spread to other users by a secondary mode... Read more

14 June, 1999 by Robert Lemos

Handhelds: More social, less secure

As more PDAS and smart phones get connected to the Internet, they're increasingly vulnerable to the world of viruses Read more

30 August, 2000 by Robert Lemos

A Year Ago: FBI goes after worm creator

The FBI has issued an updated statement concerning the new ExploreZip computer virus. After warning that the virus has the potential to cause... Read more

14 June, 2000 by ZDNet

NewLove: What went right?

It had the potential to be a crippling virus, but NewLove has done little damage. Thank more-savvy users and better virus protection Read more

22 May, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Melissa mutations keep coming

...the virus doesn't overwrite files and make them unrecoverable, as the ExploreZip worm did. Instead it deletes files, which can be restored. Dan Schrader... Read more

19 October, 1999 by Lisa M Bowman

Study: Virus infections multiply

...hard drives in the U.S. and overseas. And, in early June, ExploreZip combined Melissa's e-mail attack with CIH's malicious way of... Read more

26 July, 1999 by Robert Lemos

Finjan shifts sand to beat virus Cult

...received by email. A recent spate of malicious executable files such as ExploreZip.exe and Happy99.exe has prompted many security experts to recommend this... Read more

20 July, 1999 by Will Knight

Security expert blasts shoddy software

Security experts and so-called "white-hat" hackers meeting at the Black Hat Security Conference in the U.S. lambasted current corporate security and the companies that make security products that are anything but. Read more

9 July, 1999 by Robert Lemos

Jesse Berst: Devastating email worm on the loose

And very dangerous. Worm.ExploreZip is a virus capable of destroying data. It enters your system through... Read more

11 June, 1999 by Jesse Berst
MailScan for MDaemon 4.5a

MailScan for MDaemon 4.5a

...provides the utility to delete known malicious attachments like HAPPY99.EXE and EXPLOREZIP right at the Gateway/MDaemon? server level. Once detained, infected email is... Read more

8 February, 2006

5 years ago: Melissa variant upgraded to high-risk category

...the damage malicious code can do… 06.12.99: The Melissa variant, ExploreZip.worm.pak, is hitting corporate America hard and can now be classified... Read more

6 December, 2004 by silicon.com staff

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