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Lumbering Viruses Infect PCs Worldwide
News Both viruses infect users the most common way -- by tricking them into opening an attachment. Navidad only impacts computers running Microsoft Windows and Outlook, but it can infect any flavour of Windows.
[November 15, 2000, 10:37]
Flash Worms: Thirty Seconds To Infect The Internet
White Papers In a recent very ingenious analysis, UC Berkeley proposed the possibility of a Warhol Worm that could spread across the Internet and infect all vulnerable servers in less than 15 minutes (much faster than the hours or days seen in Worm infections...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Virus First To Infect Macromedia Flash
News It's only when a Flash file or movie is played on a PC through a standalone player included with Macromedia's authoring tools for Web designers that this type of virus can actually infect a PC. Moreover, since the virus doesn't have a way to spread...
[January 9, 2002, 9:34]
Softseek Infect Users With Netbus Trojan
News The owner of a Web site carrying a potentially dangerous Trojan program claims he is the innocent victim of a Web site hijacker. Internet security Web site, PCHelp, Thursday evening issued a security alert accusing popular download site Softseek...
[October 8, 1999, 14:29]
A Year Ago: Softseek Infect Users With Netbus Trojan
News "Windows security program" WinSec carries the well-known back door Trojan, Net Bus 170 W95. The owner of a Web site carrying a potentially dangerous Trojan program claims he is the innocent victim of a Web site hijacker.
[October 8, 2000, 7:07]
Code Red: A New Threat
White Papers Worms, like the Lion worm, differ from viruses in that they propagate without user intervention, and do not infect individual files on a system. Viruses, on the other hand, typically infect executable files and require the user to pass the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
CAIDA Analysis Of Code-Red - Code-Red Worms: A Global Threat
White Papers The first incarnation of the Code-Red worm (CRv1) began to infect hosts running unpatched versions of Microsoft's IIS webserver on July 12th, 2001. Finally, on August 4th, a new worm began to infect machines exploiting the same vulnerability in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Spread Of MSBlast Worm Slows
Talkback For one, it can only infect computers with 2000, ME, NT, or XP. The most disturbing thing is that somebody has nothing better to do with their time but create this crap to infect other computers, in order to 'get back' at a company.
[August 15, 2003, 2:38]
Virus Alert: How The Anna Virus Was Created
News Every day there are hundreds of new viruses that fail to infect another user, often because of programming bugs. It creates VBS worms that infect Windows systems with Microsoft VB5 runtimes or Windows Scripting Host 5.0.
[February 13, 2001, 8:10]
The Truth About Viruses, Worms And Trojans
News How do viruses infect a computer, and what sorts are there? They also search for software on the local hard disk and across any connected network to find more code to infect. Viruses modify existing software so that when run, the legitimate program...
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
Mac Virus Competition Halted For 'legal Reasons'
News Plans to hold a $25,000 virus writing competition to infect the Apple OS X have been scrapped after the company behind the scheme backed down over "legal problems" and complaints from Mac customers. Before it was pulled, virus writers were invited...
[March 29, 2005, 16:05]
Experts React To 'Chinese Linux Virus'
News The debate over whether a virus could infect and seriously affect Linux has gathered momentum with leading advocates of the open source operating system conceding that clever malicious code could damage the system.
[January 28, 2000, 9:50]
Car Virus Rumours Crushed
News Antivirus experts have concluded that mobile phone viruses are unable to infect cars. Technicians at F-Secure announced on Monday they had quashed rumours that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth, after failing to infect the...
[May 9, 2005, 17:55]
Assembler Virus Spells Trouble For Linux
News Virus writers have crafted another example of malicious software that can infect computers running Windows or Linux. However, it can infect files in the different formats used by Linux and Windows - ELF and PE, respectively, Kaspersky said.
[April 10, 2006, 9:05]
Security Industry Slams Virus Reward
News The antivirus industry lambasted email firewall startup GateKeeper on Monday, after the company announced a reward for any virus writer who can infect a specific computer protected by its product. The challenge will pay $100 to the first person to...
[April 3, 2001, 10:32]
Learn More About Viruses And Worms
White Papers A virus might rapidly infect every application file on an individual computer, or slowly infect the documents on that computer, but it does not intentionally try to spread itself from that computer to other computers.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Worm Belies Apple's Perfection
Talkback Opener" is *NOT* a worm, or a virus, or a trojan horse o anything else that can infect a machine via any form of network connection including the internet. Running in circles shouting and screaming that something that has to be physically planted...
[November 5, 2004, 19:30]
Why Did MSBlast Fail To Take Down Microsoft?
News But from what I've seen, once released onto the Internet, worms continue to infect new hosts. The result was that MSBlast basically did nothing to affect Microsoft, except perhaps infect new machines and generally cause headaches for network and...
[August 28, 2003, 13:30]
'Good' Worm Fights MSBlast
News A variant of MSBlast spread on Monday, but the new worm has an odd twist: it applies a patch for the vulnerability that it and other MSBlast worms use to infect Windows systems. I don't necessarily think whenever you infect someone's systems...
[August 19, 2003, 8:50]
Spida Bites Microsoft SQL Servers
News Called DoubleTap by vulnerability analysis firm SecurityFocus, the worm has already managed to infect 1,600 servers that run the software, said Elias Levy, chief technology officer for the company. Even though SecurityFocus is currently tracking...
[May 22, 2002, 10:02]
