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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]
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]
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]
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]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News While the number of computers infected by the Klez.H variant falls short of such epidemics as the LoveLetter worm, the virus has still shown surprising resiliency, said Steve Trilling, director of antivirus software maker Symantec's security...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Klez virus set to wipe itself out
News The Klez.E variant runs a distant second to its far more prevalent Klez.H cousin, making up only 3 percent of the junk email associated with the Klez virus. In addition, Klez.H spoofs the sender's address to make it look like a random person from...
[September 6, 2002, 10:16]
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. Alternately known as Klez.g, Klez.h and Klez.k, depending on the security advisory that's referring to it, the worm has its...
[April 18, 2002, 8:50]
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]
Klez virus passes confidential info
News Security-software maker Symantec upgraded on Wednesday the latest variant, which it labelled W32.Klez.H, to a threat level of three from a previous rating of two. Known as Klez.G, Klez.H and Klez.K, depending on the security advisory, the newest...
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Klez worm variant infests UK
News UK-based MessageLabs said the Klez.H worm, which spreads via email, has proliferated "dramatically" during the day on Friday. Klez.H, as it is called by most antivirus vendors, is a modified version of a worm that has been around for months.
[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]
Braid virus winds its way through email
News The Klez.h variant of the Klez virus has sent out millions of email messages with a copy of itself attached. Although the company has seen only 43 copies of the virus -- indicating an extremely slow start -- W32.Braid shares some attributes of the...
[November 5, 2002, 8:16]
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]
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]
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 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]
Bugbear virus threat on the rise
News That placed it second to Klez.h, which accounted for about 14,000 email messages. A new email virus gained a greater foothold in unpatched Windows PCs on Tuesday, spurring antivirus companies to upgrade their estimate of the virus' danger.
[October 2, 2002, 8:02]
W32 viruses top the charts
News Topping the list was Klez-H, followed by Badtrans-B, and then Elkern-C. This year Windows 32 viruses have accounted for all the positions on the top 10 list, according to a virus occurrence summary. Anti-virus vendor Sophos this week released its...
[July 5, 2002, 7:58]
Swen worm tops virus charts
News On Friday, email provider Messagelabs said its email servers had stopped more copies of Swen than any other worm, including Klez.H, the previous top threat. Security experts have said that the Swen mass-mailing Windows worm appears to be spreading...
[September 19, 2003, 15:55]
