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LoveLetter worm variant spams spies
News A new variant of the LoveLetter worm has surfaced that contains a list of words designed to attract software that monitors electronic communications for national security threats. Dubbed "VBS/LoveLet-CL" by UK antivirus company, Sophos, the mass...
[May 17, 2001, 9:02]
Worm alert! LOVELETTER gets nastier
Talkback Think of all the trouble that would be saved if Microsoft hadn't allowed VBScript filesystem access in the first place! Look at Java Applets!
[April 18, 2004, 20:08]
Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control Relies on Trend Micro's "Lightning Quick" Antivirus Response for Loveletter and Other Threats
White Papers Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange is the primary weapon used in the Industrial Automation and Control [IAC] division at Honeywell to control viruses. ScanMail for Exchange protects Honeywell IAC's 6,000 users across 11 Microsoft Exchange...
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Worm alert! LOVELETTER gets nastier
News Security software maker Symantec warned computer users and businesses of a new, destructive worm -- apparently based on ILOVEYOU -- that had hit three Israeli and European clients by Thursday night. Aside from spreading by mailing itself out to...
[May 19, 2000, 8:33]
More ILOVEYOU variants surface
News VBS/Loveletter.a VBS/Loveletter.c VBS/Loveletter.d Body: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. Body: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. Notes: Also known as I-Worm.Loveletter, IRC/Loveletter, Loveletter, Troj...
[May 10, 2000, 8:41]
Phoney Symantec warning and 'Important!' virus variants
News VBS/Loveletter.f VBS/Loveletter.g The VBS.LoveLetter.A is an Internet worm that uses Microsoft Outlook to e-mail itself as an attachment. When executed, this script will protect Your PC from being INFECTED by VBS.LoveLetter.A virus.
[May 10, 2000, 8:42]
"I Can't Believe This!", Arab Air and other virus variants
News VBS/Loveletter.j VBS/Loveletter.l Notes: Appears to be a variation of Loveletter.g alias "Virus ALERT! VBS/Loveletter.k VBS/Loveletter.m Subject: Virus ALERT! Body: Same as g alias "Virus ALERT! Attachment: protect.vbs
[May 10, 2000, 8:43]
Yeah, Yeah, LOOK!, Bewerbung, and more virus variants
News VBS/Loveletter.n VBS/Loveletter.r VBS/Loveletter.p VBS/Loveletter.q Body: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. VBS/Loveletter.o VBS/Loveletter.s Subject: Variant Test Body: This is a variant to the vbs virus.
[May 10, 2000, 8:44]
Security a low priority in Y2K
News The LoveLetter virus, also known as the "ILOVEYOU worm" and the "Love Bug," swept through corporations in a surge of email, obliterating files and leaving chaos in its wake. The "LoveLetter" virus paused email traffic for, at most, a few days in May.
[December 27, 2000, 12:15]
Homepage worm dies out
News The Homepage worm accounted for one out of every 55 emails but fell short of the one out of every 28 emails for which the LoveLetter virus was responsible. Though the worm wasn't waning as fast as previous self-spreading programs, such as the...
[May 10, 2001, 8:17]
Hybris virus: Sleeper hit of 2001
News Instead of the avalanche of email messages created by viruses such as Melissa and LoveLetter, Hybris produces a steady trickle of virulent email, making it less noticeable. Another point in the worm's favor: It's written as a 32-bit Windows program...
[January 12, 2001, 8:47]
Klez worm refuses to die
News While the worm has not spread as quickly as, say, the LoveLetter virus--of which MessageLabs received one copy for every 23 legitimate e-mails during the virus' peak in May 2000 -- it does make up one out of nearly every 170 e-mails, Harrington said.
[May 20, 2002, 9:19]
Dutch treat? Netherlander takes credit for 'Anna'
News A 22-year-old computer school dropout, Onel de Guzman, has since been charged for crimes related to the release of the LoveLetter virus. In his online admission, OnTheFly said a recent study by market researcher IDC, which concluded that surfers...
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
2001: The year of the virus
News Viruses such as LoveLetter and Kournikova have long used sexy incentives to entice people to click on them. In December 2001, the mass-mailing Pentagone (or "Goner") worm, written in Visual Basic Script (VBS), threatened to wreak as much havoc as...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Secure Email and Workflow Automation: Five Critical Questions Every Financial Institution Must Ask
White Papers To be sure, virtually every company has protection against the "Loveletter" and "Melissa"-type viruses that wreaked havoc in the early part of the decade. After years of transferring many business activities online to take advantage of the benefits...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Braid virus winds its way through email
News While many of the tactics Braid uses to spread resemble those used by the Klez family, the program itself seems closer to a more famous virus, LoveLetter. Antivirus software from Network Associates and rivals Symantec and Trend Micro all detect...
[November 5, 2002, 8:16]
The Year Ahead: The future of viruses
News There used to be things like Loveletter, which were script viruses written in plain English text. In 2000, Loveletter was the largest ever virus case. In 2003, they say, new breeds of computer attacks are likely to emerge that are capable of...
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
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]
LoveBug variant steals bank details
News The virus is known by the name VBS/Loveletter.bd and is disguised as a job resume attached to an email message. A LoveBug variant has been detected trying to capture password details from Swiss Internet banking customers, according to US security...
[August 17, 2000, 12:04]
Counting the cost of Slammer
News That puts the worm at No.on the company's list of the most costly malicious code, behind the likes of the Code Red worm, with its average of $2.6bn in productivity loss; the LoveLetter virus, with $8.8bn; and the Klez virus, with $9.0bn.
[February 3, 2003, 7:54]
