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Melissa-X Remains Contained
News It looks like it is relatively under control," says Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre (SARC) in Europe. Since reports of the virus, dubbed Melissa-X and Melissa 2001, started coming in Thursday, Chien says that...
[January 19, 2001, 13:45]
Lumbering Viruses Infect PCs Worldwide
News Patrick Martin, program manager of Symantec's AntiVirus Research Centre, says his firm has received several hundred submissions of the virus from clients in the past few days. Martin says Symantec has received about 100 submissions of the bug in...
[November 15, 2000, 10:37]
Homepage Worm Spreads Quicker Than Lovebug
News Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre (SARC), predicts that Homepage will be seen at more companies today. Antivirus vendor Symantec said that last night more than 30 companies reported receiving the worm.
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
Industry Unites Against IM Spam
News However the software may not be as attractive to customers who already subscribe to an antivirus package, with both Symantec's Norton Antivirus and McAfee's VirusScan packages featuring the ability to remove viruses from files received via IM.
[February 22, 2005, 7:55]
Palm Hit By Trojan Horse
News All of the existing Palm platforms are insecure," said Carey Nachenberg, chief researcher for Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre. Symantec announced June that it is creating antivirus software for the Palm platform.
[August 29, 2000, 8:21]
Experts Predict New Virus Rampage
News I think we are going to see a repeat of the (MSBlast worm)," said Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec's antivirus research centre, referring to the program that spread across the Internet in August.
[October 24, 2003, 8:45]
Phone/PDA Viruses Loom On The Horizon
News Yet, while the Palm has seen its first Trojan and its first virus, it will be some time before generally destructive viruses start infecting the platform and other PDAs, said Eric Chien, chief researcher for Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre.
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
MyDoom Hits Music Industry
News Right now, it feels like someone took the original one and modified it," said Vincent Weafer, senior director for the antivirus research centre at security company Symantec. The variant, MyDoom.F, deletes several different types of files stored on...
[February 23, 2004, 7:10]
Bugs At Internet Speed? Pt II
News For the time being, no consumers will be using the system, said Vincent Weafer, director of Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre. Symantec will only deploy the Digital Immune System in medium to large companies, where professionals can oversee the...
[November 6, 2000, 9:39]
A Year Ago: Viruses: What Punishment Fits The Crime?
News Carey Nachenberg, chief scientist with antivirus software lab Symantec Antivirus Research Centre, stressed that, even if CIH causes more damage, Melissa affected U.S.businesses more -- and that, in his opinion, explains the pressure to punish the...
[April 28, 2000, 7:00]
Viruses: What Punishment Fits The Crime?
News Carey Nachenberg, chief scientist with antivirus software lab Symantec Antivirus Research Centre, stressed that, even if CIH causes more damage, Melissa affected U.S.businesses more -- and that, in his opinion, explains the pressure to punish the...
[April 30, 1999, 7:54]
Worms Find Fertile Ground In IM
News If history tells us anything, technologies used by many people can be used by other people on the fringes," said Steve Trilling, director of research at Symantec's antivirus research centre. One of the interesting aspects of instant messaging...
[August 15, 2001, 9:12]
MTX Virus Won't Let You Get Help
News It blocks people from self-help," said Vincent Weafer, director of antivirus research for security-software maker Symantec. She also said users of Symantec's Norton Utilities can also download software updates and fixes from Tucows.com, which is...
[November 29, 2000, 12:24]
Fifth Sasser 'released Before Arrest'
News Sasser.E is currently rated a low security threat by antivirus firm Network Associates and rates a "2" on rival Symantec's five-point scale. It appears that whoever released it is trying to notify people that their systems are vulnerable," said...
[May 11, 2004, 8:35]
MessageLabs: Filtering Your Email Sewage
News Inside Symantec's nuclear bunker Both Symantec and Sophos can also respond 24/7. Inside Symantec's nuclear bunker ISPs need to talk to each other, and share information proactively," says Alex Shipp, MessageLabs senior antivirus technologist and...
[November 30, 2005, 12:45]
Windows Worms Wreak Havoc
News Infected machines can be cleaned up using tools available from antivirus software makers, including Symantec. The pain is being felt "on the inside", agreed David Cole, the director of product management at Symantec Security Response.
[August 17, 2005, 10:15]
Melissa Mutations Keep Coming
News The new virus, called Melissa.U(Gen 1), has hit one U.S.company with 30,000 computers, according to Symantec's AntiVirus Research Centre. Symantec posted new software that protects against it on Monday, and anti-virus firm Trend Micro said its...
[October 19, 1999, 9:13]
DoS Worm Invades Microsoft Servers
News This is one of the trends that we are going to see more and more of: the crossover between the hacking and virus writing, and moving away from email-borne worms," said Vincent Weafer, director of software maker Symantec's antivirus research centre.
[June 11, 2001, 8:47]
'Good' Worm Fights MSBlast
News Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for Symantec's security response centre, agreed that worms aren't a good way to distribute patches. The original variant of the MSBlast worm continued to spread over the weekend and is likely to have infected more...
[August 19, 2003, 8:50]
AOL Users Hit By Bizarre Hoax
News There is currently no virus that has the characteristics ascribed to Y2KFIX.EXE," wrote Motoaki Yamamura of Symantec, in a briefing on Symantec's AntiVirus Research Centre. The message, which seems to be sent by a concerned AOL user, describes a...
[July 28, 1999, 8:32]
