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Klez virus passes confidential info
News The latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride on sensitive documents, resulting in victims' confidential information spreading with the malicious program, Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs said on Friday.
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Klez virus set to wipe itself out
News A minor variant of the Klez virus is set to go into action tomorrow, erasing a host of files on infected hard drives. The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload on the sixth day of March, May, September and...
[September 6, 2002, 10:16]
Klez worms its way to the top of the virus charts
News The Klez.I worm is a slight variation on Klez.H that also infects PCs with the Elkern.d virus, which antivirus company Trend Micro ranked as the most active virus on Monday. Steve Trilling, director of antivirus software maker Symantec's security...
[April 30, 2002, 8:35]
Mimail supplants Klez as virus spreads
News The Mimail worm has snatched prime position away from Klez by becoming the fastest spreading Internet menace, according to mail filtering company MessageLabs. The veteran Klez, which was discovered all the way back in April last year, has slipped...
[August 8, 2003, 8:55]
Klez still surfing the virus top ten
News Comparing Klez to newcomer Lovgate, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "The Lovgate worm may have been the most talked about virus in February, but it certainly wasn't the most prolific, reaching only number nine in the...
[March 3, 2003, 16:04]
Klez worm refuses to die
News It may only be a matter of time before you're accused of spreading the Klez virus. The Klez variant's ability to spoof the source of infected e-mail makes it nearly impossible to track down the infected users who sent the virus.
[May 20, 2002, 9:19]
Klez overtakes SirCam in virus stakes
News Klez.h appears to be overtaking SirCam as the most virulent computer virus to date. This particular version of the virus surfaced in April, and is also known as Klez.g, Klez.h and Klez.k, depending on the security advisory that's referring to it.
[May 28, 2002, 12:55]
Klez still dominates the virus top 10
News Yet again Klez was the most common source of virus reports during the month of April, as measured by anti-virus firm Sophos. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus, said: "While Klez refuses to go away, a new entry this...
[April 30, 2003, 13:31]
Bugbear to set new virus record
News Last week, email service provider MessageLabs intercepted 320,000 missives containing the Bugbear attachment, more than the Klez.h virus managed in its first week in April. In June, Klez.h hit MessageLabs' millionth message mark, a first for a...
[October 8, 2002, 7:45]
Braid virus winds its way through email
News Although the company has seen only 43 copies of the virus -- indicating an extremely slow start -- W32.Braid shares some attributes of the widely spread Klez family of viruses and could have similar success.
[November 5, 2002, 8:16]
Chernobyl virus hitches a ride
News The persistent pest, which made a strong comeback last month in the form of the Klez.h variant, is now helping revive the Chernobyl virus, according to a new report from antivirus company Symantec. The report says that a virus known as W95.CIH.1049...
[May 7, 2002, 8:54]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News Computer users who have antivirus software and have updated the software's virus definitions -- information used to recognise viruses -- are immune to the latest Klez variant. While the number of computers infected by the Klez.H variant falls short...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Email viruses show dramatic rise
News According to the report, which measured results up to the end of the second week of December, the most active virus was Klez.H with 4.9 million copies stopped by MessageLabs. Although Klez was the most active virus, Bugbear was the most dramatic...
[December 16, 2002, 10:19]
Bugbear set to stick around
News This pattern emerged with the Klez virus, variants of which have lingered at the top of Messagelabs' charts since this spring. With the publicity surrounding Bugbear, many Klez victims finally downloaded new software and banished the older worm...
[October 7, 2002, 14:06]
Bugbear tops virus charts
News W32/Bugbear-A (Bugbear worm) 29.4 per cent W32/Braid-A (Braid worm) 8.5 per cent W32/Klez-H (Klez variant) 7.7 per cent W32/Opaserv-A (Opaserv worm) 5.4 per cent W32/Opaserv-C (Opaserv variant) 5.1 per cent W32/Flcss (FunLove worm) 4.6 per cent...
[December 2, 2002, 7:38]
Klez worm on the loose again
News By 1900 GMT on Wednesday, major antivirus vendors had updated their virus definitions to recognise the newest Klez variant. A new variant of the Klez worm managed to squirm into computers in some parts of Asia on Tuesday and appeared to be...
[April 18, 2002, 8:50]
Report: Viruses spreading on the double
News Klez, which started off as a fairly innocuous mass-mailing worm, mutated into nastier versions as virus writers tried to improve on the original code, resulting in the pandemic Klez.h variant. Various forms of the Klez worm were the worst offenders...
[June 19, 2002, 9:35]
Summer brings virus relief
News While the number of attacks may have decreased, the number of viruses on the prowl continues to proliferate, with Klez still at the top of the ranks in infection rates. With outbreaks of worms such as Klez, and warnings about possible large-scale...
[August 1, 2002, 10:45]
Klez worm variant infests UK
News A variant of the Klez worm which resurfaced earlier this week has begun to spread extremely quickly, with the UK as its top target, according to an antivirus firm. UK-based MessageLabs said the Klez.H worm, which spreads via email, has proliferated...
[April 19, 2002, 16:23]
Bugbear rise knocks out Klez
News The Bugbear worm is shaping up into the most serious Internet threat in months, according to security researchers, as it surpassed the lingering Klez.H to become the fastest-spreading virus of the moment.
[October 3, 2002, 16:05]
