Viruses Can Be Tamed - By Upgrading Users' Brains
Talkback This article consistantly confuses The Lovsan worm with the I LOVE YOU one. Lovsan is another name for MSBLASTER
[May 5, 2004, 2:20]
Who Writes Viruses?
News The case of the "LovSan" worm Go to any news search engine and enter "Jeffrey Lee Parson" and there he is, the alleged author of a variant of the LovSan/Blaster worm. The LovSan worm was so poorly written and executed as to be laughable.
[September 25, 2003, 13:30]
Protecting Yourself From The MSBlast Worm
Talkback Trying using anti - virus program PC-CILLIN, this is the anti virsu program that I run, and it found the virus and killed it, did not infect me at all, i gave to two other people how had the LOVSAN virus and it clean machine and then worked fine.
[September 24, 2003, 16:10]
Protecting Yourself From The MSBlast Worm
News MSBlast, also known as Lovsan, is an Internet worm that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows 2000, NT, and XP. A new worm scans Internet to find vulnerable Windows 2000, NT, and XP systems The worm takes advantage of the Distributed Component...
[August 12, 2003, 10:15]
Update Windows Today - Before It Gets Blasted
News The MSBlast worm (also knows as Blaster or Lovsan) has been spreading quickly around the globe since Monday by infecting systems that do not have adequate firewall protection. Companies and home users should use Microsoft's Windows Update service...
[August 12, 2003, 14:24]
FBI Tracks Worm Writers
News Companies and home computer users have had to deal with the MSBlast worm -- also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan -- which started spreading on 11 August; a worm that attempted to plug the hole exploited by the MSBlast worm; and the Sobig.F...
[August 27, 2003, 8:35]
MSBlast Spawns Variants As Users Race To Patch
News Security company Symantec, which directly measures the spread of the worm via sensors distributed throughout the Internet, said the number of computers compromised by MSBlast -- aka W32/Lovsan and W32.Blaster -- had reached 228,000 by midmorning...
[August 14, 2003, 8:45]
Code Mishmash Drives MSBlast
News The worm -- also known as W32/Lovsan.worm and W32.MSBlaster -- is successful not because its creator was knowledgeable about programming, but because a great many people whose computers are connected to the Internet are still ignorant when it...
[August 13, 2003, 8:39]
FBI Near Arrest In MSBlast Case
News Companies and home computer users have had to deal with the MSBlast worm -- also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan -- which started spreading on 11 August; a worm that attempted to plug the hole exploited by the MSBlast worm; and the Sobig.F...
[August 29, 2003, 9:00]
Squashing The Next Worm
News Despite numerous flaws in its code, the worm--also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan--infected more than 330,000 computers running Microsoft Windows. Two years after the Code Red and Nimda worms spread across the Internet, home users and many...
[August 15, 2003, 12:25]
Young Worm-creator Arrested In US
News The original MSBlast worm (also known as Blaster and Lovsan), along with a flawed copycat known as Welchia and Nachi that was intended to protect vulnerable systems from the original worm, probably infected more than a million computers.
[September 29, 2003, 8:54]
New Windows Flaw Similar To MSBlast Bug
News The MSBlast worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, exploited a similar vulnerability that allowed a group of unknown hackers to load data on computers worldwide in an attempt to knock out servers that run Microsoft's update services.
[September 11, 2003, 10:57]
FBI Arrests MSBlast Worm Suspect
News The worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, began spreading 11 August. Federal law enforcement officials confirmed on Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers...
[September 1, 2003, 8:45]
Microsoft Puts Price On Virus Writers' Heads
News MSBlast, also known as Blaster and Lovsan, spread to as many as 1.2 million computers, according to data from security company Symantec. Microsoft will announce on Wednesday that it will offer two $250,000 (£148,960) bounties for information that...
[November 5, 2003, 7:35]
FBI Closes In On MSBlast Suspect
News Windows users have been battling the destructive worm, also known as W32/Blaster and W32.Lovsan, since 11 August, when the virus first began spreading via email attachments. The US Attorney's Office in Seattle confirmed it would hold a news...
[August 29, 2003, 11:25]
Virus Bounty 'will Change Nothing'
News MSBlast, also known as Blaster and Lovsan, spread to as many as 1.2 million computers, according to data from security company Symantec. Security researchers disagree on the effect Microsoft's Anti-virus Reward Program will have on the underground...
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
Most UK Companies 'still Vulnerable' To Blended Attacks
News Thompson also said he was surprised by the general lack of awareness about security issues during a period of so much viral activity: "You would think that after Slammer, Lovsan, MSBlast, Nachi and Sobig, there would be a heightened state of...
[October 29, 2003, 15:45]
