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Worm Crawls Into Kazaa Network
News Security software firm Kaspersky Labs said the worm, called "Worm.Kazaa.Benjamin", is the first malicious program to spread through the Kazaa file exchange network, although Gnutella was hit by a proof-of-concept worm in February.
[May 20, 2002, 11:51]
KWBot Worm Hits Kazaa
News The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by another worm, just months after the first such attack, according to antivirus vendors. KWBot appears to be the second worm to hit the Kazaa network, which fell prey to Benjamin worm in May.
[July 5, 2002, 15:19]
Another Worm Crawls Around Kazaa
News Users of file-swapping service Kazaa have been warned about a new worm that could put their computers under the remote control of hackers. Antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs said on Thursday that it had detected the worm, called Duload, spreading across...
[August 22, 2002, 17:03]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
News It also uses Kazaa to spread. If you are running the file-sharing program Kazaa, MyDoom will add a file named activation_crack.scr in this location: C:\Program files\Kazaa\My Shared Folder\. MyDoom is a mass-mailing worm that masquerades as a test...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Proof-of-concept Malware Targets Windows PowerShell
News MSH/Cibyz is designed to spread using the Kazaa file-sharing network, and the worm runs in PowerShell, which is due to ship in the second half of this year. If run, the worm will overwrite some file types, change registry details and place itself...
[August 1, 2006, 17:40]
Russian Firm Warns Of Roron Virus
News In that way, the virus resembles another worm that began spreading through the Kazaa network in May. The new computer virus can spread through email messages, shared hard drives and the Kazaa file-sharing network, Kaspersky Labs spokesman Denis...
[November 7, 2002, 9:49]
Netsky Attacks: Four Sites Down, One To Go
News Earlier this week, file-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey and three other Web sites were bracing themselves for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by variants of the Netsky worm.
[April 8, 2004, 14:35]
Fizzer Virus Spreads Through Kazaa
News Fizzer is a self-propagating worm which can propogates itself via email and peer-to-peer file sharing service Kazaa. When activated the worm sends itself to email addresses stored in the infected PC's Windows and Outlook address books and drops...
[May 12, 2003, 14:12]
Kazaa And EDonkey Brace For Attack From Netsky
News File-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey are bracing for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting on Wednesday that will be launched by a clutch of new variants of the Netsky worm. Kazaa and eDonkey are its best-known targets and the...
[April 6, 2004, 15:05]
Almost Half Of Kazaa Downloads 'threaten Security'
News Free software and files downloaded from P2P network Kazaa will pose one of the most significant threats to corporate security in 2004, according to research from risk management specialist TruSecure. Bruce Hughes, senior analyst at TruSecure, said...
[January 6, 2004, 16:20]
Mounties Charge Teenage Virus Suspect
News The worm originally spread via IRC and file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and LimeWire but has been modified to automatically replicate in a similar way to the Sasser and MSBlast worms. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged a teenager in...
[May 27, 2004, 13:20]
The Week In Review: Sobig, Broadband And Ratbots
News And Kazaa was the recipient of some bad news; the US government may abhor the idea of an international criminal court, but that does not stop its own legal system extending its reach ever further abroad.
[January 17, 2003, 16:54]
Microsoft Bans Employees From Music Swapping
News To support their point, they referred to two CNET News.com stories regarding separate security problems raised by Kazaa: exposing personal files and unleashing a worm. In the memo, the executives contrasted the peer-to-peer efforts of music-sharing...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
Anti-spyware Software Targets Gator
News People typically acquire such applications after downloading other free software such as the file-sharing programs Kazaa, which rely on the ad dollars. Of the more common adware programs are Gator and WhenU, which come bundled with free...
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback First Off, Lets agree that no operating system nowadays is safe from hackers, viruses trojans, worms and the rest of 'em but Windows operating systems seem to be the worst affected, maybe the fact that ports are intentionally left-open doen't help...
[January 28, 2004, 10:30]
Avril Lavigne Worm A Hit In Virus Charts
News The program also tries to spread using the chat programs ICQ and mIRC and places a randomly named copy of itself in a system's Kazaa folder, if the music file-swapping software has been installed. A new email worm -- dubbed Avril, Lirva and Naith...
[January 10, 2003, 8:30]
'Prisoner Of Azkaban' Stokes Worm Infections
News Like most Netsky versions, the P variant spreads mainly through file-sharing networks, making it a potential threat to services such as Kazaa. A leading antivirus company warned on Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the...
[June 4, 2004, 8:40]
IRC Administrators May Out-hack Fizzer Virus
News The virus, which spreads mostly through email but also through file-sharing service Kazaa, connects to a random chat network and awaits commands. Several postings on an IRC-Security list have debated the merits of trying to shut the computer virus...
[May 19, 2003, 7:59]
Spyware Enters The Spotlight
News The term itself is slippery, frequently used fuzzily to apply both to the information-thieving programs such as that identified by Clearswift, and the often-annoying advertising programs typically bundled with free software programs such as Kazaa...
[November 20, 2003, 14:05]
Is Your Company Habouring File-swappers?
News In a study spanning 560 companies, ranging from 10 to 45,000 employees, Canadian company AssetMetrix found peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa and Morpheus installed at least once in 77 percent of companies.
[July 16, 2003, 11:45]
