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Email worm exploits 11 September
News A new email worm has surfaced that uses the terror attacks of 11 September to lure victims, antivirus groups say. The worm has the subject line "All people" and appears to be from "main@world.com. According to antivirus company McAfee.com, the worm...
[September 11, 2002, 15:44]
Email worm graduates to IM
News A worm that first disguised itself as an email from computer vendors now attempts to trick MSN Messenger users into executing malicious files. The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April Fool's day, spreads via email purportedly from...
[April 4, 2005, 9:45]
Email worm attacks child porn
News The worm dubbed "Noped", encrypted as Visual Basic Script (VBS) code, arrives as an attachment to an email entitled "FWD: Help us all to end illegal child porn now. The worm also displays a lengthy document detailing what it claims are...
[May 29, 2001, 16:18]
Jesse Berst: Devastating email worm on the loose
News Experts aren't sure how far Worm.ExploreZip has spread, but email systems at Microsoft, Intel, Symantec, NBC and General Electric were hit so hard that some had to shut down mail servers. The worm -- first discovered in Israel -- enters as an email...
[June 11, 1999, 8:13]
Zafi worm dominates email systems
News Cluley said that once the worm has penetrated a contacts book to send itself to email addresses stored there, it creates a large number of made-up email addresses using existing domain names -- for example, madeupaddress@zdnet.co.uk.
[December 16, 2004, 14:45]
Sophos spots return of 'old-timer' email worm
News A three-year-old worm that disseminates through email has made a comeback, leaping to the second place of Sophos's top 10 list of email malware threats for November 2007. In a statement released today, the security vendor reported that the "old...
[December 5, 2007, 15:17]
New email worm attacks Outlook
News Antivirus experts have issued warnings of a new email worm that makes use of the Microsoft Outlook mail client. Troj_Apost.A is an email-aware worm rather than a Trojan horse, as its name suggests. Experts at antivirus company Trend Micro have...
[September 4, 2001, 16:30]
Google mistake spreads email worm
News Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra email worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video email group. Google advises people who may have received the worm in email or downloaded it from the group's website to run an antivirus...
[November 9, 2006, 9:36]
Storm worm stirs up email virus chaos
News Email users should be on alert for messages with "love"-related subject lines and an executable attachment that would contain a Trojan virus, as well as messages with "Worm Alert! The recent Storm worm proliferation, coupled with a similar attack...
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
Fake Microsoft email spreads new worm
News A new mass-mailing worm has begun spreading through Australia, and despite its lack of social smarts, is still managing to replicate rapidly. The Palyh, or Mankx worm, appears to come from support@microsoft.com, a forged address.
[May 19, 2003, 9:04]
Sober worm still swamping email systems
News The Sober.P worm is still spreading fast and now makes up 4.65 percent of all emails, according to the latest results from a UK antivirus company on Friday morning. Sophos said that the worm currently accounts for around 77 percent of all virus...
[May 6, 2005, 13:55]
Sober worm now 4 percent of all email
News One in every 22 emails circulating the Internet on Wednesday contained the latest version of the Sober worm, according to latest statistics from a UK antivirus company. Sophos claimed that the mass-mailing worm, which has been reported in 40...
[May 4, 2005, 18:10]
New 'anthrax' email worm is a dud
News Central Command on Tuesday published incomplete details of the worm, indicating that it could spread by both email and the Internet relay chat (IRC) system used by people to send messages in real time.
[October 17, 2001, 9:57]
Sober worm still swamping email systems
Talkback I don't know if that makes me a target now but I use online email accounts i.e. I'm on the net all the time and I have never been buggered by these worms, never. Hotmail and don't download anything stupid.
[May 6, 2005, 21:01]
Fake Microsoft email spreads new worm
Talkback I started getting this email couple weeks ago, i scanned it and saw the virus so deleted it. I continue getting this email 2-3 times a day. It's frustrating, everytime I open email it is there. I also emailed all my friends so they are aware of this.
[September 23, 2003, 17:55]
Sober worm now 4 percent of all email
Talkback The first real virus of the season? Gosh, security must be improving after all if it's been over a month since all of the Windows machines pounded each other into the sand.
[May 5, 2005, 6:29]
New virus detected by Symantec
News The new memory resident Internet worm is propagating via email clients. In this way, the worm will again find all unread messages after the following reboot and will reply to all of them. It sends email messages replying to all unread messages in a...
[April 17, 2001, 11:15]
SirCam worm settles in for the long haul
News Like a summer cold that just won't go away, the SirCam email worm lingers on, sending out the contents of infected hard drives for all the world to see. The Hybris worm, which first showed up late last year, has continued to spread, in part because...
[August 3, 2001, 9:38]
Four held in Israel for Goner virus
News Four Israeli teenagers have been remanded in custody on suspicion of writing the malicious Goner email worm, which is thought to have spread more rampantly than last year's infamous Love Letter virus.
[December 10, 2001, 10:24]
Winevar worm on the loose
News Antivirus vendors are warning email users to watch out for a fast-spreading and potentially destructive worm, known as WORM_WINEVAR. The worm sends email using a known exploit that causes the attachment to automatically execute when the message is...
[November 27, 2002, 16:21]
