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Anna Kournikova Virus Targets UK Firms
News Antivirus vendors in Europe report receiving numerous alerts at UK companies about a virus disguised as a picture file showing tennis player Anna Kournikova. Although this appears to contain a JPEG file named Anna Kournikova, this is in fact a...
[February 12, 2001, 17:05]
Dutch Treat? Netherlander Takes Credit For 'Anna'
News A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to writing the Anna Kournikova virus, as Excite@Home compiled evidence against a subscriber in the Netherlands who is believed to be the same person.
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Kournikova Virus Suspect Faces Four Years In Slammer
News The Dutchman suspected of unleashing a virus inspired by tennis player Anna Kournikova has been charged and released by Dutch police for computer crimes and faces a possible four years behind bars. The Kournikova virus is just the latest in a...
[February 15, 2001, 12:31]
Anna Virus Writer Goes On Trial
News Jan de Wit, the 20-year-old who wrote the Anna Kournikova virus, went to trial on Thursday, but the prosecutor asked for a relatively light sentence with no jail term -- 240 hours of community service.
[September 14, 2001, 9:46]
Homepage Worm Spreads Quicker Than Lovebug
News It seems to be spreading faster as Anna Kournikova". According to experts, the malicious email attachment uses similar code to the Kournikova worm, which spread quickly around the world in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed...
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
Purported 'Anna' Virus Toolkit Author Yanks Files From Site
News The statement confirmed the OnTheFly used the readily available virus writing tool, Vbs Worm Generator, to create the Anna Kournikova virus, but exonerated the tool's author of aiding him. The first line of the Anna virus contained the line "Vbs...
[February 16, 2001, 8:25]
Virus Dresses Up As A Naked Jennifer Lopez
News The Jennifer Lopez file is the latest in a string of mass-mailing worm viruses -- copycat versions of the Anna Kournikova virus -- that spread across the globe in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of Russian tennis...
[June 1, 2001, 8:56]
Homepage Worm Dies Out
News Virus watchers said the malicious email attachment uses code similar to that of the Kournikova worm, which spread quickly around the world in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova.
[May 10, 2001, 8:17]
Virus Update: From Russia With Love
News Like Melissa, the Anna Kournikova virus does not damage the systems it has infected, said SARC's Weafer. Having trouble with Anna? It had the potential to become Love Letter-ish, but because we and others had protection, it failed to spread too...
[February 13, 2001, 7:47]
News Burst: Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News Police in the Netherlands have arrested a man in connection with the creation of the Kournikova virus which caused havoc to computer systems worldwide this week. Go to AnchorDesk UK for the news comment on the Anna infestation from Guy Kewney.
[February 14, 2001, 13:54]
Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News Police in the Netherlands have arrested a man in connection with the creation of the Kournikova virus after he turned himself in to the authorities. Police say that the man used the online nickname OnTheFly, which appears in the code of the...
[February 14, 2001, 15:36]
Kournikova Virus Grips The World
News Wed 14 Feb: Fan confesses to creating virus inspired by Anna Kournikova Wed 14 Feb: Dutch virus writer created Anna Kournikova virus 'for fun' Tue 13 Feb: Variants of a virus capitalising on the popularity of 19-year-old Russian tennis player Anna...
[February 16, 2001, 16:46]
End To Email Viruses May Be Nigh
News In February an email purporting to carry pictures of tennis star Anna Kournikova spread twice as fast as ILOVEYOU. The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) -- an MoD agency -- on Tuesday unveiled software that detects when a virus is...
[April 24, 2001, 11:37]
New 'anthrax' Email Worm Is A Dud
News The worm is attached to the message as a Visual Basic Script (VBS) file, and had been created with the VBS Worm Generator -- the same point-and-click application that created the Anna Kournikova virus early this year.
[October 17, 2001, 9:57]
Luscious Lara Unleashes IRC Worm
News Earlier this year, a virulent email worm disguising itself as a picture file of the Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova had a disastrous impact upon many UK companies. I don't think that it is going to be big -- the number of people using IRC is...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
Worried About Kournikova Virus? Read This
News ZDNet UK brings you the Anna Kournikova virus patch for download here. However you've got the virus, or if you're an IT manager who has the sense to be prepared for the worst, you'll be keen to get rid of it as soon as possible.
[February 13, 2001, 16:26]
Trial Date Set For Kournikova Suspect
News The trial date for the man suspected of authoring the infamous Anna Kournikova email worm that infected thousands of PCs across the globe last February has been set for 12 September. Twenty-year-old de Witt, who is a self-proclaimed fan of Russian...
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
Virus Alert: Magistr Threat Played Down By Experts
News Graham Cluley, senior technologist at antivirus company Sophos, said that "Magistr" was unlikely to cause as much disruption as the recent Anna Kournikova virus. Computer users were warned on Wednesday that a new virus could attack data on their...
[March 14, 2001, 16:59]
Zeta-Jones Virus Says Hello
News Typically such files, generally spread via email, purport to contain pictures of attractive females -- with the likes of Latino lovely Shakira, Russian tennis ace Anna Kournikova and US singer Jennifer Lopez all being used to disseminate malware...
[February 13, 2003, 16:46]
Hacking Is Greater Threat Than Military Attack
News Cook was keen to point out that a national alert was issued within one hour of the Anna Kournikova virus hitting the UK. The foreign secretary warned on Thursday that hacking and computer viruses present a bigger threat to Britain than a military...
[March 30, 2001, 7:14]
