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Kaspersky scores virus alert own goal
News Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent Thursday to subscribers of the company's "Virus News" email dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers masquerading as the company. Braid, also known by Kaspersky Labs as Bridex, hasn't spread very widely.
[November 11, 2002, 9:24]
New Outlook bug can sting with spam
News According to a Microsoft draft security bulletin obtained from USSR Labs, Microsoft acknowledges the flaw, and indicates home users would be at the greatest risk. Concerns raised again about MS The spokesperson for USSR Labs said he felt Microsoft...
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Deadlier Klez worm on the prowl
News The latest version, Klez.e, (poses) the most serious threat to computer safety," said Moscow-based antivirus company Kaspersky Labs. Though antivirus companies discovered the Klez.e variant in late January, its tenacity has prompted Kaspersky Labs...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
'Goner' worm spreading fast
News It is really hard to shut us down," said Gregor Freund, president and chief executive for Zone Labs. Zone Labs claims that, while the user interface component of ZoneAlarm may be deleted, the main program will continue to run.
[December 5, 2001, 8:54]
Klez virus passes confidential info
News The latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride on sensitive documents, resulting in victims' confidential information spreading with the malicious program, Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs said on Friday.
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Q&A: Mobile phone inventor says dream isn't real yet
News They go back to the labs and say, 'Engineers go and build this. Look at the old AT&T: Bell Labs would think of things, and they would turn it over to Western Electric. You ever sent a short text message?
[April 7, 2003, 15:37]
SMS Anywhere Lite
Downloads Standard edition) For detailed user manual please visit http://www.wireless-labs.com/smsanywhere/. Standard edition)Information about the message sender / receiver is included in the forwarded message content so the user knows who send / receive...
[October 10, 2006, 7:00]
Google pilots 'Suggest' feature
News Google Suggest quietly debuted this week on the company's Labs site, which showcases Google features that "aren't quite ready for prime time," according to a message on the site. Google regularly launches new features in its Labs section, using it...
[December 10, 2004, 15:50]
Virus naming scheme divides experts
News CME does have the support of several large vendors, including Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, Computer Associates, Kaspersky Labs, Sophos, Trend Micro, F-Secure and Message Labs. The announcement that several major anti-malware players have joined...
[October 6, 2005, 13:25]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews On another note, a large number of users complained -- both on ZDNet and on the Zone Labs message forums -- that ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 caused system crashes. Instead, you can browse a brief online FAQ, send an email message, or rely on the kindness of...
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
The game's up for Windows 2000
Talkback Ever wonder why there is nowhere obvious within the XP firewall to check settings related to individual program access (as you would get in, say, Zone Alarm from Zone Labs, where you can set access levels for every single application or system...
[July 1, 2005, 10:37]
Trojan variant plagues Skype
News According to Websense Security Labs, a new set of the Warezov/Stration malicious code is currently making its way through Skype. Skype users receive a message that says 'Check up this', with a URL containing a hyperlink.
[March 23, 2007, 15:08]
Twitter fends off weekend worm attacks
News The second worm message contained the word 'Mikeyy', and the third referred to removing the Mikeyy worm, but used 'bit.ly' to add shortened URLs to messages, said Andy Hayter, anti-malcode program manager for ICSA Labs, which provides third-party...
[April 14, 2009, 13:11]
Google invites users to test new Gmail features
News Users can select from 13 new features in a 'labs' tab in the Gmail settings page, said Keith Coleman, a Gmail product manager, in a meeting with reporters in Mountain View, California. Any engineer can code a labs feature," Coleman said.
[June 6, 2008, 8:32]
Blogging comes to mobile phones
News The company credited with popularising blogging, Pyra Labs, was acquired by Google on Sunday. NewBay's software claims to extend the same ease of use of Web-based blogging software to mobile phones, allowing users to post directly to an operator...
[February 18, 2003, 16:14]
Help & HowTo: Reeezak
News Zone Labs Just in time for the holidays, the Reeezak worm (w32.reeezak.a@mm) is spreading its political message and dangerous payload across the Internet. The message text reads "Hi I can't describe my feelings But all i can say is Happy New Year...
[December 20, 2001, 10:43]
Worm crawls into Kazaa network
News Security software firm Kaspersky Labs said the worm, called "Worm.Kazaa.Benjamin", is the first malicious program to spread through the Kazaa file exchange network, although Gnutella was hit by a proof-of-concept worm in February.
[May 20, 2002, 11:51]
Europe threatened by Sober 'epidemic'
News At the same time, Kaspersky Labs, a Russian maker of antivirus software designed to combat such threats, described the worm's spread in Western Europe as an "epidemic". One of its lures is a message saying the recipient has won free tickets to the...
[May 4, 2005, 9:25]
Orange fights back in war against spam
News Sybari's Antigen solution will provide anti-virus support via third parties such as Kaspersky Labs and Sophos, and content filtering for all email travelling through Orange's exchange server. Orange UK's Antigen licence includes five virus-scanning...
[May 21, 2003, 16:09]
MSN Messenger used for viral gang warfare
News Jamz Yaneza, senior virus researcher at Trend Micro's antivirus labs division, said that the worms spread by sending messages that contain Internet links to malicious bots. The Fatso.A worm, which can also spread using the eMule P2P file sharing...
[March 8, 2005, 8:30]
