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'Legacy Viruses' Lie In Wait
News Antivirus experts speaking at the Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference have told delegates that old computer viruses are still a threat. While so-called "legacy viruses" are slowly dropping off, old malicious code is lying...
[November 6, 2003, 9:40]
Bacros Virus Targets Hard-drive Destruction
News Bacros' harking back to the bad old early days of viruses doesn't stop there, though. Like pixie boots and Bros, some things are better off left in the 1980s - like viruses that spread via floppy discs and tried to wipe hard drives.
[October 14, 2004, 17:15]
Golden-oldie Worms Top The Hit List
News The success of the old computer viruses is the result of continued susceptibility on the part of home computer users, said John Harrington, US marketing director for UK-based MessageLabs. Not all leading viruses were released last year.
[April 2, 2002, 11:05]
Police Arrest Suspected Virus Writers
News A 63-year-old man in Suffolk, a 28-year-old man in Scotland, and a 19-year-old man in Finland were arrested for "an international conspiracy to infect computers using viruses attached to unsolicited commercial email (spam)", according to a...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Hackers 'recycling Code' To Spread Worms
News Trend Micro said it identified around 1,050 new computer worms, viruses, Trojans and other examples of malware in May, compared to 1,700 the month before. Dahlgren says the reason behind the worm's popularity is that viruses and Trojans are more...
[June 1, 2004, 10:10]
Kournikova Virus Suspect Faces Four Years In Slammer
News The Kournikova virus is just the latest in a relatively new breed of fast-spreading computer viruses. Combating global computer viruses is becoming the focus of international police forces. The 20-year-old, a resident of Sneek in the northern...
[February 15, 2001, 12:31]
Why Ballmer Just Doesn't Get It
Talkback First, a simple example: I am a heavy user of PC computing and the Internet, have been for over 10 years, have no anti-virus software, use no firewall, and have no problems with viruses or computer security.
[October 15, 2003, 22:50]
Antivirus-killing Virus Threat Upgraded
News Bank machines in the office are air-gapped, but somehow viruses cross," Kuo said. The SoBig viruses were more spam-related, where Bugbear.B is sporting some quite nasty weaponry. This has two of the hallmarks which we attach to viruses that have a...
[June 6, 2003, 10:22]
Viruses Bring A Sting In The Tail
Leader Now imagine you are working for the other side, being paid to analyse the viruses and produce the patches. So you turn to triage, figuring out which viruses pose the largest threat, and releasing patches for those first.
[June 2, 2005, 14:00]
Lagging Technology Exposes Wireless Networks
News Until just recently, phones were immune from viruses simply because they didn't have the power to host them, and PDAs were immune because they were not connected. Now the two are merging the risk of viruses getting into a corporate network this way...
[October 18, 2001, 11:56]
Sasser Worm Author Arrested In Germany
News Security experts said this could be the single biggest arrest yet in the campaign against the computing underground responsible for hatching worms and viruses, which has proved difficult for law enforcement to crack.
[May 9, 2004, 11:05]
Klez Virus Set To Wipe Itself Out
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload on the...
[September 6, 2002, 10:16]
Watch Out For New Apache Worm
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a two-week-old flaw to...
[July 1, 2002, 8:35]
IM Users Hit By Widespread 'social Hack'
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. Security experts have warned that a wave of hack attacks is striking tens of thousands of...
[March 20, 2002, 12:04]
New Viruses On The Attack
News Foot and mouth disease isn't the only virus experts are finding it difficult to eradicate -- old computer viruses have been springing back to life in recent days, coupled with new attacks. See the Viruses and Hacking News Section for the latest...
[September 5, 2001, 16:47]
The Browser Wars Are Back, According To Netscape's Founder
Talkback Thank goodness for Mozilla and Firefox because Internet Explorer is old, creaky, leaky with viruses and have seen no innovation in the past several years. Dear Sir: I am a Mac lover and use Windows XP on a laptop.
[October 7, 2004, 17:31]
Security Firm Hires Teenager Accused Of Writing Sasser Virus
Talkback What is the world comming to, he'll get out of jail and there will be numerous new viruses out there and his knowledge maybe upto 5 years old. What? I hope he does a lot of keeping up with this subject while hes eating is fruit cocktail behind bars.
[September 20, 2004, 17:40]
Spam-seeding Viruses Dominate August Charts
News The number of new viruses released onto the Internet reached a 33-month high during August, but infections were dominated by old-timers that were used primarily to seed networks for spammers. In their virus reports for August, software and Internet...
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
What Is A Virus?
White Papers More than that, other authors are using routines of old viruses; an example being the routine for destroying the Flash BIOS from WIN95/CIH, already integrated in many other viruses. Viruses are usually written by mediocre programmers.
[December 29, 2003, 23:00]
ThreatFire AntiVirus Free Edition
Downloads It constantly monitors for both known and unknown viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, spyware, adware and other malware. ThreatFire is unlike traditional antivirus products that rely on old fashioned "signature" technology and...
[September 26, 2007, 15:46]
