Ex-virus writer questioned over Slammer
News Police are questioning Benny, a former member of the 29A virus writers' club, over the Internet worm Slammer. According to Czech security news site viry.cz, police interviewed the 22 year-old, who lives in Brno, and confiscated computers from his...
[November 29, 2004, 13:35]
The fox guarding the chicken coop
News A twist of fate has led the former virus writer Czech student Marek Strihavka to take a job stopping digital pests like those he used to create. About a year after leaving 29A, which takes its name from the base-16 representation of 666, the 22...
[January 18, 2005, 9:50]
Babylonia virus loses its home page
News The Webmaster of a Japanese Web page that collects computer virus information has removed the Babylonia virus from the site, saying, "Its activity doesn't match my policy. The new virus attracted researchers' attention because it was clever enough...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
First virus targets Windows CE
News A virus that infects Windows CE has been developed -- the first such bug discovered for the handheld operating system, according to one firm. BitDefender, based in Romania, stated that it has discovered a "proof of concept" virus for Microsoft's...
[July 19, 2004, 8:35]
First Windows 2000 virus discovered
News The new virus, "Win2K.Inta" or "Win2000.Install", is designed to work specifically on the Windows2000 platform and does not pose a threat to users of earlier editions of Windows, according to F-Secure.
[January 13, 2000, 6:09]
New Babylonia virus mutates inside a computer
News An extraordinary new form of virus that can actually be updated by a virus-writer after it has infected a computer has been discovered propagating in the wild by Symantec's anti-virus laboratories. Once "W95.Babylonia Y2K" has contaminated a PC...
[December 7, 1999, 16:50]
New virus hides behind old technology
News A new virus from the Czech Republic has anti-virus software makers rushing to analyse the ability of so-called "files streams" to infect PCs. File streams -- not to be confused with audio and video streaming à la RealNetworks -- break programs up...
[September 6, 2000, 8:02]
Security standoff over PC-PDA malware code
News Mobile antivirus researchers and antivirus companies are at loggerheads over access to code for a PC-to-mobile Trojan. The Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA) said last week that it had received proof-of-concept code last week for...
[March 6, 2006, 16:00]
