ISPs cut off virus-infected customers
News The worm spreads in several ways: it can arrive as an attachment entitled Readme.exe, and is programmed to automatically archive the attachment so that the executable file can run without the end user having to double-click on it.
[October 10, 2001, 15:51]
Antivirus vendors warn of Fretheme worm
News Worm_Fretheme.E is similar to other worms, in that it's an email propagated .exe attachment, Gordon said. The attachment is Decrypt-password.exe. According to Byrnes, the worm exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, for which a...
[June 13, 2002, 9:03]
Redesi worm reformats C: drives
News and names the offending attachment from the following list: Si.exe Common.exe UserConf.exe ReDe.exe Disk.exe Redesi has so far been seen in two variants; either as a Microsoft patch or as what will appear to most people more like junk email.
[October 18, 2001, 17:27]
Inbox menace - Bugbear
News According to Symantec, the worm comes in the form of a 50-KB C++ email attachment with various names and an extension of .exe, .scr, or .pif. When the attachment is opened, Bugbear determines the operating system version and creates copies of...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Bogus Microsoft bulletins closed down
News It also contains an executable file attachment entitled "MSVA.EXE. The other phony bulletin, dubbed W32.Leave.B.Worm, claims to contain the patch for a serious virus, but instead is itself malicious code.
[July 18, 2001, 16:38]
Home PCs at most risk from Nimda
News The email attachment will open automatically under Microsoft's Outlook email program if the program's security settings are at "low" and a security patch has not been installed. The worm spreads by emailing itself as an attachment, scanning for and...
[September 20, 2001, 9:13]
Microsoft refutes claims that Nimda infected its FrontPage
News The worm spreads by sending e-mail messages with an infected attachment, scanning for and infecting vulnerable Web servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Server software, copying itself to shared disk drives on networks, and appending...
[September 20, 2001, 14:44]
Klez worm on the loose again
News The company first detected the malicious attachment late Monday and has seen the spread of the worm gradually increase. The malicious program will find any network storage available on the infected PC and copy itself to the remote disk drives using...
[April 18, 2002, 8:50]
Buggy virus bounds round the Net
News The virus is contained in an attachment called patch.exe, presumably designed to make people click on it believing that it is a software patch, said Cluley. Sophos has posted a patch on its Web site. An email virus that is believed to have...
[March 14, 2002, 11:01]
Wallon virus wrecks Windows Media Player
News When an unsuspecting user opens the infected attachment, it executes a piece of code that usually attempts to steal the user's address book and often opens a back door to give hackers easy access to the system's resources.
[May 12, 2004, 16:50]
MS issues Outlook security patch
News In the ILOVEYOU incident, the original worm -- contained in an email -- used a bit of wordplay to convince the reader to click on a Visual Basic Script attachment labeled "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs".
[June 9, 2000, 8:28]
