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Netsky.B outstrips MyDoom
News In the last 24 hours, MessageLabs has stopped more than 10 times as many Netsky.B worms as MyDoom worms. E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate. Netsky.B scans the hard drives and shared drives of an...
[February 24, 2004, 7:55]
Virus variants spread
News Both MyDoom and Netsky have been altered to continue assaulting vulnerable users. Despite requiring the computer user to actively run an attachment, Netsky.C seems to be spreading fast, with antivirus vendor Central Command claiming it had...
[February 26, 2004, 7:40]
Virus writers exchange coded insults
News Security researchers have discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle are exchanging insults with the author of Netsky using text that is hidden inside the virus's code. Since Friday, more than 10 variants of the Netsky, Bagle and MyDoom worms...
[March 3, 2004, 12:30]
MyDoom.Y baffles antivirus firms
News A new version of the Internet worm MyDoom includes a photo of Netsky worm writer Sven Jaschan and a description of the worm itself. But then again, Netsky was much more widespread than MyDoom. Jaschan, who was charged earlier this year by German...
[September 16, 2004, 11:55]
Netsky author signs out with final variant
News Netsky.K was discovered on Monday and security researchers found an unexpected message from the author within its code; although the authors of Netsky, Bagle and MyDoom have been engaged in a flame war for the past couple of weeks, this latest...
[March 9, 2004, 12:25]
Bagle eats Netsky as the worm turns
News Earlier this month, security researchers discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle were exchanging insults, and that the author of the Netsky worm was using text hidden inside the virus's code. Researchers believe that the insults were flying...
[March 16, 2004, 16:35]
MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firms
News In the latest version of MyDoom - MyDoom.AE - the authors embedded a message ridiculing rival worm NetSky and promising to attack the antivirus companies. Hypponen said that the message included comments on previous viruses, poking fun at the...
[October 18, 2004, 13:05]
Spam-seeding viruses dominate August charts
News In their virus reports for August, software and Internet security companies said that viruses such as Netsky, Zafi and MyDoom, together with their variants, continued to dominate the charts. W32/Netsky.P-mm
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
Antivirus firm improves security after emailing virus
News Between last Friday and this Wednesday, more than 10 variants of the NetSky, Bagle and MyDoom worms have been discovered by antivirus firms. Variants spreading among computers on the Internet in the past three days have contained messages, complete...
[March 5, 2004, 9:55]
New Bagle released but Netsky tops the malware charts
News Natasha Staley, information security analyst at email security firm MessageLabs, said that although Netsky is far more widespread than the others, it is because there has been a lack of extremely dangerous worms -- such as MyDoom and Sobig.f -- to...
[July 16, 2004, 16:05]
Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004
News At least three well-known internet worms — labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos — are able to execute on the OS, according Sophos. The MyDoom and Netsky variants were first detected back in 2004.
[November 30, 2006, 12:44]
Security firm hires teenager accused of writing Sasser virus
News The photo could be making the point that MyDoom has won the virus war but then again, Netsky was much more widespread than MyDoom" he said. Sven Jaschan, an 18-year-old from Waffensen in Lower Saxony, who is also thought to be behind the Netsky...
[September 20, 2004, 14:20]
Netsky copycat sparks search for source code
News Until Tuesday, all of the Netsky worm variants contained text that insulted the authors of the MyDoom and Bagle worms. Security experts suspect that the author of Netsky, which has been one of the most successful pieces of malware this year, is...
[March 12, 2004, 11:20]
Netsky writers claim credit for Sasser worm
News The unknown team of programmers who created the latest variant of the Netsky virus claim to be the authors of the Sasser worm -- and researchers have found evidence that supports that assertion. The programmers, who have referred to themselves as...
[May 4, 2004, 8:35]
VACCINE: War of the Worms in Wired and Wireless Networks
White Papers The highlight of worm outbreaks in 2004 was a new phenomenon called 'War of the Worms' between NetSky, Bagle and MyDoom worm variants. Their aftermaths caused the record-high of 12 outbreaks in first quarter alone.
[October 6, 2008, 1:21]
Security 'job one priority at Microsoft'
Talkback Imagine if all those massive viruses we've had in the last 12 months like Netsky or MyDoom had deleted peoples files instead of just launching DoS attacks. Microsoft have been incredibly lucky that the last 12 months have been so benign.
[October 4, 2004, 11:31]
Virus top 10: Can Netsky's march be stopped?
News Zafi.B and Netsky.P have managed to notch up another month on top of the chart for the worst malware mischief-making. Netsky.P spreads via email by harvesting addresses from local drives. With numerous versions of the Netsky virus available in the...
[November 1, 2004, 11:34]
Christmas number one virus plays on
News W32/Zafi-D: 30.8 percent (Third month at number one)W32/Netsky-P: 22.3 percentW32/Zafi-B: 9.7 percentW32/Bagle-BK: 5.2 percent (New entry)W32/Netsky-D: 4.2 percentW32/Netsky-Z: 3.8 percentW32/Sober-K: 3.4 percent (New entry)W32/Sobig-F: 2.5...
[March 2, 2005, 13:40]
One virus writer 'responsible for 70 percent of infections'
News Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of virus infections in 2004, according to a six-month malware round-up published by antivirus firm Sophos on Wednesday.
[July 28, 2004, 17:35]
Sasser bounty hangs on conviction, says Microsoft
News Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged last week by German police, but the informant who led authorities to the suspect will have to wait for a promised $250,000 (£140,000) reward...
[September 13, 2004, 8:15]
