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US Government To Allow Mass Email Spam
News Uncle Sam could become "Uncle Spam" if the government follows through with plans for creating an "official US email box" for every address in America, say industry executives briefed on the proposal. The ruckus began earlier this week, when the US...
[August 2, 2000, 10:06]
Batch Job To Create And Send Mass Excel Reports Using REXX, SAS, HTML(XML) And Email System
White Papers The paper presents a computing architecture and related problems of a batch job to create and send mass Excel reports to a lot of users using REXX, SAS Base, HTML, MSO XML and Email system. The paper addresses an application of a SAS parameterized...
[September 12, 2006, 0:00]
Hoax Email Goads Users Into Deleting Harmless Files
News A hoax email warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe -- that will be triggered on 1 June -- seems to be propagating as a result of mass hysteria. Whereas email worms mass mail themselves and cause destruction, this hoax...
[May 30, 2001, 17:03]
Smartphones Heading For The Mass Market
News Smartphones, or phones that enable web access and email, are heading for the mass market. While the corporate market is humming along quite nicely, carriers and mobile-phone makers also see huge potential in the mass market, where, for example...
[October 1, 2007, 12:19]
Latest Bagle Masquerades As Quote
News A prolific new variant of the mass-mailing Bagle worm began flooding email accounts Monday with bogus price quotes. Bagle.AQ started spreading on Monday morning and quickly began bombarding some corporate email systems with thousands of infected...
[August 10, 2004, 8:35]
MyDoom Compromises Web
News The previously most prevalent mass-mailing virus, called Sobig.F, only accounted for one out of every 17 email messages. This is the most aggressive that we have seen to date," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer for MessageLabs, which...
[January 28, 2004, 7:15]
Virus Exploits Celebrity Cachet
News As with other mass mailers, the email attachment when activated searches out email addresses on the infected machine and forwards itself on to all names in the affected user's address book. Users hoping for a sneaky peek at some candid shots of...
[July 7, 2003, 15:41]
Mimail Worm Tops Virus Chart
News The worm then tries to use that script to mass email itself, potentially clogging mail servers or slowing down networks, according to antivirus company Symantec. The worm spread widely on Friday, with the bulk of messages affecting computers in the...
[August 4, 2003, 8:40]
Networks Crippled By Worms' Onslaught
News Nachi, the problematic fixer worm, and Sobig.F, the worst mass-mailing computer virus to date, continued to flood some corporate networks and email servers on Thursday. AOL estimates that it blocks as much as 75 percent of automatically generated...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
Sober Worm Poised To Strike Again
News A new outbreak of the Sober worm may be coming, security experts have warned, even as email systems worldwide work to get rid of the last infestation of the mass-mailing worm. The attack could have a significant detrimental effect on Internet...
[December 8, 2005, 9:00]
Warning Of Gestating Worm
News Email-filtering company MessageLabs has issued an early warning to antivirus vendors that a new mass-mailing worm may be on the march. The filtering company says the timeframe is based on the head-start its vigil over email systems gives it in...
[February 16, 2004, 13:50]
New Mass-mailer On The March
News Like other iterations of Mytob, the two latest versions are distributed via mass email campaigns, feature so-called backdoor capabilities, and attack computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
[March 30, 2005, 9:15]
Worm Spreads Happy Nude Year Greeting
News According to antivirus company Sophos, the naughty New Year photo message contains a mass-mailing worm, dubbed Wurmark-D, that is programmed to disable security software on host computers and send itself to email addresses stored there.
[January 11, 2005, 16:45]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News The email misleads a victim into downloading an application -- ostensibly to view a Web card -- then sends itself to every email address in the victim's Outlook contacts file. Yet the creators -- Permissioned Media, a company apparently based in...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Saddam Used As Worm Lure
News The worm can spread via email and by using the Microsoft LSASS vulnerability, the same flaw used by the Sasser worm to spread in record time. Bobax.H, which affects PCs running Microsoft Windows, propagates when people open an email attachment...
[February 4, 2005, 8:25]
Third Sobig Worm Strikes, And More May Follow
News The worm's main impact is to mass-mail itself to email addresses found in address books on the system, but such worms, when successful, can use large amounts of bandwidth. Messagelabs, which offers email outsourcing to companies around the world...
[June 2, 2003, 15:28]
Worm And Virus Overload Networks
News Email service provider MessageLabs stopped more than 100,000 messages carrying the latest virus in the first few hours of the attack. Because so many messages had hit MIT's email gateways, the computers had long queues of messages waiting to be...
[August 20, 2003, 8:35]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News Once it installs itself on one PC, it can spread through network connections as well as email messages. According to Symantec, the worm comes in the form of a 50-KB C++ email attachment with various names and an extension of .exe, .scr, or .pif.
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Sasser's Heirs Spread Slowly
News Lebreat is also a mass-mailer, which means it travels as an attachment in an email message. This virus claims to be 'Breatle AntiVirus v1.0', and it spreads over both email and network vulnerabilities," F-Secure said in its advisory.
[July 18, 2005, 9:30]
Fake Microsoft Email Spreads New Worm
News Upon execution, it self propagates using email addresses from files stored on the targeted system. Because the email contains little information and doesn't pressure the recipient into opening the attachment could be a reason that people are in...
[May 19, 2003, 9:04]
