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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]
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]
Can You Infect Me Now?: Malware Propagation in Mobile Phone Networks
White Papers This paper evaluates the effects of malware propagating using communication services in mobile phone networks. Although self-propagating malware is well understood in the Internet, mobile phone networks have very different characteristics in terms...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
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]
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]
Debunking Some Linux Myths
Blog Comment Its not really a myth because the virus, trojans etc do infect WIndows with ease. Sure, if linux was as prevalent as Windows there would be more attacks but they will not succeed to infect the systems other than by social engineering.
[October 26, 2009, 15:51]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
SirCam worm puts secrets at risk
News Chris Ashurst, a resource management consultant in British Columbia, Canada, considers himself lucky that he didn't infect his friends and colleagues after receiving the file on Friday. The worm, which cropped up last week, continued to infect...
[July 24, 2001, 8:46]
.Net virus hits C# note
News On Friday, antivirus companies received a copy of a worm called Sharpei, which is partially written in Microsoft's newest computer language, C#, and designed to infect computers loaded with the .Net framework.
[March 4, 2002, 10:39]
