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Netsky.B outstrips MyDoom
News E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate. MessageLabs, an e-mail management company, claims to have stopped more than 1.3 million email since the virus started spreading, and believes the infection rate...
[February 24, 2004, 7:55]
Worm's growth contained as deadline looms
News The MSBlast worm's infection rate has slowed as companies and home users clean up compromised computers, according to antivirus firms. Named after the msblast.exe file that contains the program, MSBlast continued to spread to new computers on...
[August 15, 2003, 8:50]
Growing number of PCs hit by ID fraud malware
News The researchers predict that the infection rate will increase by 336 percent per month throughout this year, based on the trend of the previous 14 months. Researchers predict that the infection rate will increase by 336 percent per month throughout...
[March 11, 2009, 12:05]
All quiet on the Nyxem front
News The country with the next highest infection rate was the US, with 1,000 compromised PCs. India is the country with the highest infection rate, MessageLabs reported, with 4,000 infected machines. The Nyxem worm, which was expected to start deleting...
[February 3, 2006, 12:05]
MSBlast still spreading strongly
News On the other hand, the data also doesn't take into account any machines that have been cleansed of the infection since the worm began spreading. Instead, the worm seems to have been spreading at nearly the same rate over the past few days...
[August 18, 2003, 8:40]
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[February 5, 2008, 7:00]
China suffers virus epidemic
News Ignorance and lack of defensive tools are the reasons behind the high infection rate, said Xinhua. Infected downloads, booby-trapped Web sites, and email attachments were the main avenues of infection for those surveyed.
[October 21, 2003, 9:54]
Lumbering viruses infect PCs worldwide
News Despite this stealth, other antivirus firms still rate the bug a low risk because of a small infection rate. McAfee today reported finding "W32/Music", which after infection displays a window titled "Merry Christmas" and plays a rendition of "We...
[November 15, 2000, 10:37]
Symantec on alert after surge in Net activity
News A higher than reported infection rate of Qhosts-1 is among the possible explanations for the phenomenon Symantec is considering. However, antivirus companies have given the Trojan a low threat rating, having received few reports of infection and he...
[October 3, 2003, 11:50]
Babylonia virus loses its home page
News The second piece modifies the virus to display a message on boot-up; the third turns the virus into a worm that spreads over IRC; and the fourth sends email to babylonia_counter@hotmail.com, probably so the virus writers can follow the program's...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
VBS worm targets Gnutella users
News Because users have to actively search for the files -- rather than have an infected file delivered to it as in the "ILOVEYOU" worm -- the rate of infection will be low and the worm should not spread widely.
[June 5, 2000, 8:49]
MyDoom compromises Web
News However, Sunner believed that the infection rate of the virus had begun to slow by Tuesday afternoon. While the primary infection hit in July 2001, tens of thousands of computers remain infected with the worm, which is still scanning the Internet...
[January 28, 2004, 7:15]
Fifth Sasser 'released before arrest'
News He suggested that the slow rate of infection is largely a result of the patches that users have installed since Sasser was first detected in late April. PST) on Sunday, but Friedrichs said the spread of the infection is moving slow enough to...
[May 11, 2004, 8:35]
Could Symantec have saved you from Slammer?
News When I pointed this out to the company, a Symantec spokesperson responded, "Even though there is active discussion on the initial infection rate of this work (10 to 60 minutes) to reach critical mass, the peak period of recorded scans was over a...
[March 3, 2003, 11:03]
MSBlast spawns variants as users race to patch
News Still, the infection rate is much slower than that of the Code Red v.2 worm, which -- at its fastest -- compromised 100,000 computers in about five hours and about 350,000 computers in a day. If the rate holds, the MSBlast worm could infect a...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
UK lab researches worm-throttling
News Since a machine that is infected, but throttled, isn't spreading the virus any more, the overall speed of infection is reduced. Human Web browsing will result in a connection rate of less than two outgoing Internet connection attempts per second.
[December 11, 2002, 11:04]
A worm belies Apple's perfection
Talkback So far after 11 months of this year, the same number of mac users destroyed by UFO is equal to the number of mac users with a real infection (any of any kind - not just malware). Do you need to rate a kiss by a beautiful woman?
[November 5, 2004, 20:03]
Code Red: Alive again and kicking
News Based on our preliminary analysis, we expect to see the activity of this particular worm to compare to the 19 July infection," said Deborah Weierman, a spokeswoman for government's National Infrastructure Protection Centre.
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms
News Exactly half the overall respondents admitted suffering from a virus infection or DDoS attack over the past year. Nick Ray, chief executive of security software company Prevx, told ZDNet UK that the fact so many companies with antivirus protection...
[March 2, 2004, 13:10]
Experts play down Nolor worm threat
News We're not seeing a great infection rate.the ratings are set (according to) the ability of the virus or worm has to send itself out," he said. Antivirus companies have played down the threat from the Nolor (aka Cailont) mass-mailing email worm -- a...
[April 29, 2003, 8:29]
