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Storm worm stirs up email virus chaos
News It seems likely that Thursday marked the largest proliferation of email virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini. Email users should be on alert for messages with "love"-related subject lines and an executable...
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
The Archers fans ploughed by email virus
News The BBC accidentally sent a mass-mailing worm to the subscribers of an email mailing list for fans of the radio soap opera The Archers last week, according to Sophos Anti-Virus. The broadcaster has confirmed that The Archers fans were sent the...
[February 4, 2003, 12:40]
Carlson Companies, Inc. Looks to Trend Micro for Internet and Email Virus Protection
White Papers The Company depended on Internet gateway and desktop-only antivirus solutions for email virus protection. The 'I Love You' virus came in the form of a Visual Basic Script (VBS) email attachment, consequently exposing a fundamental weakness of...
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Epidemic virus infects corporate email
News A number of Microsoft Outlook/Exchange customers -- including the software giant itself and Intel -- are being hit hard by a macro virus that is replicating infected pornography-related information throughout corporate email systems
[March 27, 2000, 7:12]
Braid virus winds its way through email
News A new mass-mailing computer virus known as W32.Braid has slowly spread among PCs over the weekend, said UK email service provider MessageLabs. The Klez.h variant of the Klez virus has sent out millions of email messages with a copy of itself attached.
[November 5, 2002, 8:16]
Virus writers claim Blair's email account was hacked
News Cybercriminals claimed on Friday that the Prime Minister's email account has been hacked, in the latest attempt to attack PCs with malware. On the same day Tony Blair won a third term in government, a spam message was sent out stating that...
[May 6, 2005, 14:55]
Hoax email virus victims seek fix
News A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs might contain a virus tricked an untold number of people into deleting a beneficial Windows application -- and now they're scrambling to get it back. Bobbi Cassibo is one of many e-mail users who...
[June 1, 2001, 9:55]
Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection: A Key Layer in Complete Enterprise Email Security
White Papers Every enterprise has some form of anti-virus protection in place, yet malware penetration in the enterprise has become commonplace. Virus writers have identified the weak-point of traditional AV engines - the time it takes to develop protection for...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
World Cup email leads to virus penalty
News According to antivirus firm Sophos, the VBS/Chick-F virus arrives via email as a compressed HTML file that carries the subject "RE: Korea Japan Results". The virus will then send an email to the first entry in a user's Microsoft Outlook address...
[June 7, 2002, 10:34]
Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires
News Email security firm MessageLabs said on Friday that Sobig.F was the third most active virus in November, with some 264,000 copies being detected by its email virus-scanning servers. Sobig.F is still rampaging around the Internet, two months after...
[November 28, 2003, 16:50]
Viruses: Back with a vengeance in 2004
News When the MiMail.l email virus appeared last month, it got little attention from the media. By the time the Sobig.f variant came along in mid-August, the open-proxy network created by earlier variants helped Sobig.f infect over one million PCs...
[January 5, 2004, 10:10]
Virus writer says 'I love you' again
News Five years after the world fell victim to the ILOVEYOU email virus, a malware writer is trying the same trick on unsuspecting users. Antivirus experts unearthed a mass-mailing worm on Tuesday, dubbed Assiral, that mimics the Love Bug virus which...
[February 22, 2005, 10:35]
Bugbear to set new virus record
News The Bugbear computer virus may be spreading more slowly this week than last, but it's still on track to be the most prolific email virus to date, antivirus experts said on Monday. Last week, email service provider MessageLabs intercepted 320,000...
[October 8, 2002, 7:45]
A Year Ago: Melissa virus lives on
News Yet, while the current crop of code being generated by virus writers is not original , the anti-virus firms are worried that some virus writer will learn how to make a true email virus -- one that does not require the user to act at all.
[October 18, 2000, 7:01]
Bugbear virus threat on the rise
News A new email virus gained a greater foothold in unpatched Windows PCs on Tuesday, spurring antivirus companies to upgrade their estimate of the virus' danger. Known as W32.Bugbear or I-Worm.Tanatos, the mass-mailing computer virus started infecting...
[October 2, 2002, 8:02]
Email worm attacks child porn
News An email virus that seeks out images of child pornography on systems running Microsoft Windows and alerts government agencies to positive findings, has been released by hackers intent on cleaning up the Internet.
[May 29, 2001, 16:18]
'Bin Laden' virus spreading in China
News An email-aware virus named "Bin Laden" is spreading through China, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper. But reports of the virus surfaced in China throughout Tuesday night, said the China Daily.
[November 21, 2001, 17:15]
Don't panic over Virtual Card virus alert
News Computer users who receive an email warning of a "Virtual Card" virus should ignore it, as antivirus experts are confident it is a hoax. The email, which has the subject line "Important -- Please read this warning about a Destructive Virus" first...
[April 27, 2001, 13:25]
Terror warning conceals virus
News A new virus is spreading by email in Malaysia, combining threats of terrorist plans and a Trojan horse virus. The Star said that MyCERT officials had not yet confirmed whether the Malaysian police had been notified of the terrorist virus email.
[December 29, 2003, 9:15]
Welcome to yet another year of viruses review
Reviews When the MiMail.l email virus appeared last month, it got little attention from the media. The year 2003 was supposed to see the end of email-borne viruses, given that both Microsoft Outlook and anti-virus applications have become much better at...
[January 12, 2004, 8:15]
