Lovgate Worm Starts To Spread
News Called Lovgate, the worm has three variants (A, B and C), and is slightly more difficult to spot than the earlier "Catherine Zeta Jones" malware, as emails carrying it come with random subject lines and contain attachments with a range of file names.
[February 24, 2003, 15:49]
Lovgate Worm's Got A Hold On PCs
News Known as Lovgate, the LovGate.C program has many similarities to previous viruses: It is a binary program; it has its own email engine, obviating the need to use another program such as Microsoft Outlook to send messages; and it attempts to use 16...
[February 25, 2003, 9:09]
Lovgate Worm Mutates, Spreads In Asia
News All are related to the Lovgate.C worm, discovered in February. The LovGate virus generally first appears as an attachment to an email message. Security firm Trend Micro has reported seeing the virus in Singapore, South Korea and Japan and has given...
[May 14, 2003, 8:35]
Old-school Worm Loves Windows Applications
News The latest variant of the Lovgate worm scans PCs for executable files and then renames them, a tactic used by viruses from a much older generation, according to antivirus companies. The Lovgate worm first appeared in February 2003 and has since...
[July 7, 2004, 17:20]
Klez Still Surfing The Virus Top Ten
News There was a new entry for Lovgate, which arrived late in the month but managed to claim ninth place with 2.1 percent of reports. Comparing Klez to newcomer Lovgate, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "The Lovgate worm may...
[March 3, 2003, 16:04]
Spam-seeding Viruses Dominate August Charts
News Worm/LovGate.AH W32/Lovgate-V Although we have seen a small, 10 percent, decline in reports of Zafi-B since last month, this email-aware worm doesn't look like it's going to fade into obscurity anytime soon," said Carole Theriault, security...
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
Klez Still Dominates The Virus Top 10
News W32/Lovgate-E (Lovgate variant) 4.9 per cent Yet again Klez was the most common source of virus reports during the month of April, as measured by anti-virus firm Sophos. However, while many of the most prolific viruses have been doing the rounds...
[April 30, 2003, 13:31]
Worms Target Lazy Passwords
News The recent LovGate worm -- which appeared on the Internet two weeks ago -- uses a list of 16 passwords as a secondary way to infect computers. A spike in Internet traffic caused by a worm over the weekend can be largely blamed on bad passwords and...
[March 11, 2003, 8:42]
Sasser Tops Virus Infections
News Lovgate-V (0.7 per cent) The Sasser worm dominated virus charts for May, accounting for more than half the inbox infections reported during the month. According to figures from antivirus firm Sophos, the worm made up 51 per cent of all reported...
[June 1, 2004, 15:00]
