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Storm Worm Resurfaces
News The Storm worm is undergoing a resurgence but, unlike the first variant, which had an executable file as an email attachment, the latest Trojan-horse attack is delivered over the web. The Storm worm first emerged in January as an executable file...
[August 17, 2007, 12:30]
Bagle Turns To Verse
News Additionally, the worm uses a graphic of three cherries, similar to a winning result on a slot machine, as the icon for the executable attachment, said Network Associates, which is planning to change its name to McAfee.
[April 27, 2004, 8:40]
Pretty Park Is Back
News In general, unless you're expecting a file, don't ever open an email attachment, especially an executable file. And, to be safe, you should scan every email attachment you receive, regardless of the source.
[March 20, 2000, 9:52]
Dumaru Worm Comes Sniffing Again
News It comes with an attachment called myphoto.zip, which contains an executable file. Because the virus includes a zipped attachment, rather than an executable one, it is more likely to penetrate a network security system that has been set up to repel...
[January 26, 2004, 15:50]
Antivirus Firms Fear Bagle's Bite
News The worm arrives in email inboxes as a message containing few lines of text suggesting that the email may be from system administrator, as well as an executable attachment. When the attachment is activated by its receiver the worm then installs a...
[January 19, 2004, 8:00]
Facebook Enabling Tailored Email Attacks
News In the attack claiming to be from the Better Business Bureau, the attachment was a rich text format document that contained an executable program disguised as a PDF file. In the September attack, more than 1,000 senior executives were sent messages...
[November 21, 2007, 11:24]
Spreading Virus Takes Aim At SCO
News The body of the email contains an executable file and a statement such as: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. Variations in the body text include: "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII...
[January 27, 2004, 8:30]
RemailPlus DLL
Downloads This can be emailed as an attachment and when runs entering the correct password it decrypts the data using any Email client. It provides the CreateSelfExe function to place all confidential information to a self executable containing encrypted data.
[January 29, 2007, 3:46]
GFI MailSecurity For Exchange/SMTP
Downloads Other key features include an email content and attachment checking module, to quarantine dangerous attachments and content; an exploit shield; an HTML threats engine, to disable HTML scripts; and a Trojan & Executable Scanner, to detect malicious...
[June 15, 2006, 22:31]
Experts Play Down Nolor Worm Threat
News Antivirus companies have played down the threat from the Nolor (aka Cailont) mass-mailing email worm -- a "garden variety" virus that spreads by sending itself to Windows address book entries through an executable attachment.
[April 29, 2003, 8:29]
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! According to warning notices from Postini as well as VeriSign, which...
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
MyParty Worm Is An Unwelcome Guest
News But what appears to be the URL www.myparty.yahoo.com is in fact an executable attachment capable of infecting a local machine with a copy of the virus. MyParty is the latest in a line of 'socially engineered' viruses that rely on the user to click...
[January 28, 2002, 12:51]
Netsky.D Worm Spreading At 'record Speed'
News However, the worm is spread as an executable attachment and will cause infected computers to play a series of beeps from their PC speakers between 6 a.m.and 8.59 a.m.on 2 March. America has just woken up and will be opening its inboxes, and...
[March 1, 2004, 14:00]
Trojan Attack Targets Top Executives
News What it had in the attachment is an executable RTF file," a MessageLabs spokesperson said. The email, which contains no body text, includes an .scr screen-saver dummy file within an executable RTF file, the spokesperson said.
[September 25, 2007, 9:23]
Bilingual Worm Masquerades As Microsoft Patch
News According to Finnish antivirus company F-Secure, Sober.D spreads either as an executable attachment or inside a password-protected Zip archive attached to an email. The email appears to be a Microsoft patch so people will of course double-click on...
[March 8, 2004, 11:40]
'Storm Worm' Sweeps The Globe
News Storm Worm is a Trojan horse with an executable file as an attachment. People who open the attachment then unknowingly become part of a botnet. "Storm Worm", one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely...
[January 22, 2007, 7:32]
Trojan Exploits Outlook Express
News Outlook Express uses this one to decide what to do with the attachment. A fake extension structure intended to get around filtering softwareA fake visible extension to trick people into opening an attachment by making it appear safe, when it...
[February 20, 2003, 11:13]
Microsoft Teaches 'safe Practice' Computing On-screen
News Perera said the new dialogue boxes will appear when a user tries to do something that is not considered "safe practice", such as opening an executable attachment. By using dialogue boxes to educate the user, we can tell them 'you can go ahead and...
[April 28, 2004, 10:05]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News According to Symantec, the worm comes in the form of a 50-KB C++ email attachment with various names and an extension of .exe, .scr, or .pif. When the attachment is opened, Bugbear determines the operating system version and creates copies of...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
ISPs Cut Off Virus-infected Customers
News The worm spreads in several ways: it can arrive as an attachment entitled Readme.exe, and is programmed to automatically archive the attachment so that the executable file can run without the end user having to double-click on it.
[October 10, 2001, 15:51]
