W32/Badtrans@MM (Mcafee)
White Papers AVERT has raised the Risk Assessment on the Badtrans.b variant to Medium On Watch for corporate users and High for home users. We have received many reports that the virus is being seen and stopped at corporate gateways and mail servers.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
What Is I-Worm.Badtrans.B?
White Papers I-Worm.Badtrans.B is a new variation of the Internet worm, I-Worm.Badtrans.A, a virus that spread via e-mail (a copy of the worm was sent as a reply message to all unread emails in the users Inbox folder).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Relaxed Holiday Attitudes Help BadTrans Worm
News However, he noted that there have been more submissions about BadTrans in Asia Pacific than for Aliz. Known as BadTrans.B, the worm is spreading mainly due to people's relaxed approach to security during the holiday season, said April Goostree...
[November 27, 2001, 9:07]
W32/Badtrans.B@mm (CSAV)
White Papers This worm arrives as an email attachment using one of several different filenames as well as two separate extensions; for example, YOU_ARE_FAT! MP3.scr. When the worm is executed, it will install a copy of itself as kernel32.exe on the Windows...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
British Trojan Launches Weekend Attack
News The "B" variant of the W32/Badtrans@MM virus has been attacking home and corporate PCs installed with Microsoft Outlook. On an average day, 10,000 viruses will be intercepted by Messagelabs at an Internet level, but Sunner expects more than 30,000...
[November 26, 2001, 11:38]
Deadlier Klez Worm On The Prowl
News Based on how many instances of each worm and virus the company has intercepted in the past 24 hours, UK-headquartered mail service provider MessageLabs ranks Klez.e fourth on its top 10 list, behind Sircam, BadTrans and Magistr -- old worms that...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
'Goner' Worm Spreading Fast
News Email service provider MessageLabs intercepted more than 39,000 Pentagone-infected emails Tuesday, a much larger haul than the first four days of December's worst-hitter, BadTrans.B. The BadTrans.B worm followed just such a trend, peaking during...
[December 5, 2001, 8:54]
New Virus Detected By Symantec
News Trend Micro, AVX and Symantec say a new virus is spreading: BADTRANS.A, or w32.badtrans.13312@mm. AVX says the virus was detected on 12 April, whereas Symantec says it was discovered on 11 April. The new memory resident Internet worm is propagating...
[April 17, 2001, 11:15]
Avast Virus Cleaner Tool
Downloads Version 1.0.209 can handle virus families: Badtrans--Beagle (aka Bagle), (A-Z, AA-AH), Blaster (A-I), BugBear (A-I)--Ganda--Klez/Elkern, all variants--MiMail (A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-V)--Mydoom (variants A, B, D, F-N).
[November 7, 2006, 0:16]
W32 Viruses Top The Charts
News Topping the list was Klez-H, followed by Badtrans-B, and then Elkern-C. This year Windows 32 viruses have accounted for all the positions on the top 10 list, according to a virus occurrence summary. Last month, it was reported that computer viruses...
[July 5, 2002, 7:58]
Bugbear Set To Stick Around
News Known technically as W32.Bugbear or I-Worm.Tanatos, experts now believe the virus to be a modified version of the earlier Badtrans worm. The Bugbear email worm continued to top the virus charts over the weekend, but even though antivirus experts...
[October 7, 2002, 14:06]
Bugbear Rise Knocks Out Klez
News Known technically as W32.Bugbear or I-Worm.Tanatos, experts now believe the virus to be a modified version of the earlier Badtrans worm. The Bugbear worm is shaping up into the most serious Internet threat in months, according to security...
[October 3, 2002, 16:05]
Summer Brings Virus Relief
News According to Ducklin, Badtrans and Magistr -- two older viruses -- still account for about 10 percent of reports, with Nimda still generating 1.5 percent of reports. Antivirus firm Central Command has reported that the number of virus attacks it...
[August 1, 2002, 10:45]
Chernobyl Virus Hitches A Ride
News At current rates of infection, Klez.h should surpass the No.bug, BadTrans.b, in a few days. The Klez worm just keeps on giving. The persistent pest, which made a strong comeback last month in the form of the Klez.h variant, is now helping revive...
[May 7, 2002, 8:54]
