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Mimail worm tops virus chart
News A new Windows mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user's network administrator, began infecting systems on Friday and quickly rose to the top of the virus charts on Monday.
[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. The mass-mailing virus Sobig.F, which targets Windows computers, started...
[August 22, 2003, 8:45]
Wallon virus wrecks Windows Media Player
News A new mass-mailing virus called Wallon, which destroys Windows media player and is activated when a user tries to play MP3 or video files from an infected PC, was discovered in Europe on Tuesday. Traditionally, mass-mailing viruses such as Netsky...
[May 12, 2004, 16:50]
Greeting card virus brings bad tidings
News The FriendGreetings electronic greeting card, which has all the hallmarks of a mass-mailing computer virus and was first reported here, is raising the hackles of the Internet community. At least a few systems administrators have complained in...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
MyDoom compromises Web
News The mass-mailing MyDoom virus has become the fastest spreading program to date and the damage could continue for months or years. The previously most prevalent mass-mailing virus, called Sobig.F, only accounted for one out of every 17 email messages.
[January 28, 2004, 7:15]
Worm and virus overload networks
News A "good" Internet worm and a new malicious mass-mailing computer virus are creating an enormous amount of network traffic, slowing some corporate systems, security experts said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a new variant of the mass-mailing Sobig virus...
[August 20, 2003, 8:35]
MyDoom mutation attacks Microsoft
News A new version of the mass-mailing MyDoom virus has hit the Net, aiming data attacks at Microsoft's Web site and interfering with an infected PC's ability to access downloadable security-software updates, antivirus companies said on Wednesday.
[January 29, 2004, 8:50]
Saddam used as worm lure
News One example was the Anna Kournikova virus, a mass-mailing worm that posed as a photo of the popular Russian tennis player. Photos of a "dead" Saddam Hussein are the lure for a new mass-mailing worm, Sophos warned on Thursday, in the latest instance...
[February 4, 2005, 8:25]
Netsky tops 2004 virus charts
News Zafi-B, a mass-mailing worm, ranked second, accounting for nearly 19 percent of all virus outbreaks this year, according to the report. Netsky-P was first spotted in March; it's one of more than 30 variants of the original Netsky mass-mailing worm...
[December 9, 2004, 14:10]
British trojan launches weekend attack
News A new variant of a mass-mailing Internet worm has been spreading rapidly over the weekend and is reported to be reaching the epidemic levels of SirCam, according to British antivirus companies. The "B" variant, which is though to have originated...
[November 26, 2001, 11:38]
Thanksgiving will bring a Sober hangover
News This is the biggest outbreak of a mass-mailing virus all year. MessageLabs believes Sober-Y could continue to spread in large quantities for some time, as the auto switch-off function used in most mass-mailing malware hasn't been enabled.
[November 25, 2005, 16:25]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews Version 4.0 also includes an email monitor that hunts for possible mass-mailing viruses and worms, a cookie manager, a pop-up and banner ad blocker, and an ActiveX and Java script defender. Other enhancements include a cache cleaner to wipe space...
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
Three-stage Bagle variants alarm experts
News The Win32.Glieder worm spreads using a common mass-mailing method, relying on users to click on an attachment so it email itself on to names in the address book. As well as mailing itself on, the mass-mailer downloads a Trojan called Win32.Fantibag...
[June 2, 2005, 12:10]
2001: The year of the virus
News This mass-mailing worm arrives as email with a random subject line that is identical to the attached filename, and purports to be sent by a friend. In December 2001, the mass-mailing Pentagone (or "Goner") worm, written in Visual Basic Script (VBS...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Enterprises 'left vulnerable' for 56 days this year
News The type of threat that IronPort refers to - mass mailing worms - are becoming less of a threat with the shift to lower profile, more targeted attacks. Hogan added he is confident Symantec's heuristics will block mass-mailing worm "straight out of...
[December 20, 2005, 15:05]
Sobig worm stomps on PCs
News Sobig is a mass-mailing worm incorporating its own SMTP engine, according to antivirus companies. Antivirus experts are warning of a new virus, code-named W32/Sobig.A, which was discovered late last week and spread rapidly over the weekend.
[January 13, 2003, 12:37]
MyLife variant viruses spawned over Easter
News All four new variants of MyLife share the same mass-mailing characteristics of the original, and email themselves itself to all email addresses in the Microsoft Outlook address book and the MSN Messenger contact list.
[April 2, 2002, 14:01]
Second Christmas card virus Ataks users
News Antivirus companies have spotted another mass-mailing Christmas card virus spreading around the Internet. The virus, which is similar to the Zafi worm currently causing havoc on the Internet, spreads to all the addresses in the contacts book of...
[December 16, 2004, 12:15]
W32 viruses top the charts
News All the viruses in its top 10 list were mass-mailing Windows 32 viruses, according to a statement from the company. This year Windows 32 viruses have accounted for all the positions on the top 10 list, according to a virus occurrence summary.
[July 5, 2002, 7:58]
and don't forget to manage the vulnerabilities.....
Talkback I discovered that W32.Mytob.mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses it own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the Windows Address Book on the compromised computer. I wondered how a virus could cause such a major issue.
[November 19, 2008, 14:36]
