Klez worm refuses to die
News A month after it started spreading, the Klez.h worm isn't slowing down, said antivirus experts on Friday. Klez.h can also send out a random file from the PC as an attachment, along with the e-mail that carries the worm, potentiall passing...
[May 20, 2002, 9:19]
Klez variant strikes unprotected PCs
News Trend Micro's Worldwide Virus Tracking Center, a Web service that reports incidents of a virus infection aggregated from calls to Trend Micro's customer support and any instances found by its online virus scanner, says the Klez.H worm -- which...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Chernobyl virus hitches a ride
News The report says that a virus known as W95.CIH.1049, a slight variation of the W95.CIH bug dubbed the Chernobyl virus when it began spreading four years ago, has been detected in recent infections of the Klez worm.
[May 7, 2002, 8:54]
Klez overtakes SirCam in virus stakes
News Rid your computer of the Klez worm with this free Klez removal utility from ZDNet UK's Downloads section. Klez.h appears to be overtaking SirCam as the most virulent computer virus to date. This particular version of the virus surfaced in April...
[May 28, 2002, 12:55]
Klez virus passes confidential info
News Klez.H poses a special threat: the worm scans the disks of an infected computer and, depending on a set of conditions, attaches a file to each infected email it distributes," stated the advisory. Email security firm MessageLabs said the Klez.H worm...
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Klez worm on the loose again
News Alternately known as Klez.g, Klez.h and Klez.k, depending on the security advisory that's referring to it, the worm has its own email engine to mass mail itself to potential victims, and it also attempts to deactivate some antivirus products.
[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 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]
Bugbear to set new virus record
News With the publicity surrounding Bugbear, many Klez victims finally downloaded new software and banished the older worm, but many more have been left vulnerable to Bugbear. Last week, email service provider MessageLabs intercepted 320,000 missives...
[October 8, 2002, 7:45]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
Bugbear virus threat on the rise
News That placed it second to Klez.h, which accounted for about 14,000 email messages. Known as W32.Bugbear or I-Worm.Tanatos, the mass-mailing computer virus started infecting computers via email on Sunday.
[October 2, 2002, 8:02]
Lovgate worm's got a hold on PCs
News That falls well short of the propagation of the top-dog computer virus, Klez.H. The worm is a variant of the LovGate.A virus, also known as w32.lovegate@m, which was first seen on the Internet last week.
[February 25, 2003, 9:09]
