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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]
Inbox menace - Bugbear
News The Bugbear/Tanatos mass-mailing worm takes advantage of a vulnerability so well known that Microsoft released a patch to fix it a year ago. The worm uses its own SMTP engine and addresses harvested from the infected system's databases to generate...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
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. The initial Bagle virus emerged early this year and appeared to be a fairly standard mass-mailing worm.
[August 10, 2004, 8:35]
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]
Saddam used as worm lure
News Photos of a "dead" Saddam Hussein are the lure for a new mass-mailing worm, Sophos warned on Thursday, in the latest instance of attackers using well-known figures as bait. One example was the Anna Kournikova virus, a mass-mailing worm that posed...
[February 4, 2005, 8:25]
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 company said the attachment was sufficiently different from other mass mailing worms in circulation -- such...
[February 16, 2004, 13:50]
ISPs told to help eradicate Sober
News ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down machines infected with the mass-mailing Sober worm. They could also download a Sober update in the future, sparking another mass-mailing attack.
[January 9, 2006, 13:40]
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 Sober family of mass-mailing worms appears to be the work of a...
[December 8, 2005, 9:00]
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]
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]
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]
Netsky tops 2004 virus charts
News Netsky-P was first spotted in March; it's one of more than 30 variants of the original Netsky mass-mailing worm, which debuted in February. Zafi-B, a mass-mailing worm, ranked second, accounting for nearly 19 percent of all virus outbreaks this...
[December 9, 2004, 14:10]
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]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews Other enhancements include a cache cleaner to wipe space-hogging temporary Internet files, browser histories, and cookies from your machine, plus an improved mail monitor that watches outbound mail for evidence of mass-mailing worm activity.
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
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]
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]
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. I think the mass-mailing part will have more of an impact. The previously most prevalent mass-mailing virus, called...
[January 28, 2004, 7:15]
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]
Evaman worm 'could break out' worldwide
News A leading information technology security company has played down the risk posed by the new Evaman mass-mailing worm, but warned it could still be of nuisance value to Australian users. Symantec senior technical director Tim Hartman said as yet...
[July 5, 2004, 10:10]
Lovgate worm's got a hold on PCs
News A mass-mailing computer virus compromised a moderate number of PCs worldwide on Monday, installing a Trojan horse program that allows a remote intruder easy access to a victim's system, said antivirus experts.
[February 25, 2003, 9:09]
