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Kournikova Virus Suspect Faces Four Years In Slammer
News The Dutchman suspected of unleashing a virus inspired by tennis player Anna Kournikova has been charged and released by Dutch police for computer crimes and faces a possible four years behind bars. The Kournikova virus is just the latest in a...
[February 15, 2001, 12:31]
Trial Date Set For Kournikova Suspect
News Twenty-year-old de Witt, who is a self-proclaimed fan of Russian tennis star Kournikova, is charged with spreading information via a computer network with the intention of causing damage. The trial date for the man suspected of authoring the...
[June 21, 2001, 13:49]
Kournikova Virus Grips The World
News Tue 13 Feb: Variants of a virus capitalising on the popularity of 19-year-old Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova failed to add momentum to the worm's spread Monday Kournikova virus suspect faces four years in slammer
[February 16, 2001, 16:46]
Virus Update: From Russia With Love
News Like Melissa, the Anna Kournikova virus does not damage the systems it has infected, said SARC's Weafer. Initial reports indicated that the virus' promise of a picture of the teenage tennis heartthrob had lured a large number of people into opening...
[February 13, 2001, 7:47]
Top Spin Demo
Downloads Top Spin offers singles or doubles matches with 16 of the world's top professionals, including cover athletes Anna Kournikova and the world's number-one player, Lleyton Hewitt.This is a demo for Top Spin, letting you choose from two tennis pro...
[August 28, 2004, 5:31]
End To Email Viruses May Be Nigh
News In February an email purporting to carry pictures of tennis star Anna Kournikova spread twice as fast as ILOVEYOU. The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) -- an MoD agency -- on Tuesday unveiled software that detects when a virus is...
[April 24, 2001, 11:37]
Luscious Lara Unleashes IRC Worm
News Earlier this year, a virulent email worm disguising itself as a picture file of the Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova had a disastrous impact upon many UK companies. I don't think that it is going to be big -- the number of people using IRC is...
[September 5, 2001, 9:33]
Virus Dresses Up As A Naked Jennifer Lopez
News The Jennifer Lopez file is the latest in a string of mass-mailing worm viruses -- copycat versions of the Anna Kournikova virus -- that spread across the globe in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of Russian tennis...
[June 1, 2001, 8:56]
Homepage Worm Spreads Quicker Than Lovebug
News According to experts, the malicious email attachment uses similar code to the Kournikova worm, which spread quickly around the world in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of the Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova.
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
Homepage Worm Dies Out
News Virus watchers said the malicious email attachment uses code similar to that of the Kournikova worm, which spread quickly around the world in February by encouraging victims to click on a supposed picture of Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova.
[May 10, 2001, 8:17]
Purported 'Anna' Virus Toolkit Author Yanks Files From Site
News The statement confirmed the OnTheFly used the readily available virus writing tool, Vbs Worm Generator, to create the Anna Kournikova virus, but exonerated the tool's author of aiding him. The first line of the Anna virus contained the line "Vbs...
[February 16, 2001, 8:25]
Anna Kournikova Virus Targets UK Firms
News Antivirus vendors in Europe report receiving numerous alerts at UK companies about a virus disguised as a picture file showing tennis player Anna Kournikova. Although this appears to contain a JPEG file named Anna Kournikova, this is in fact a...
[February 12, 2001, 17:05]
Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News Police in the Netherlands have arrested a man in connection with the creation of the Kournikova virus after he turned himself in to the authorities. Police say that the man used the online nickname OnTheFly, which appears in the code of the...
[February 14, 2001, 15:36]
News Burst: Dutch Police Arrest Kournikova Virus Suspect
News Police in the Netherlands have arrested a man in connection with the creation of the Kournikova virus which caused havoc to computer systems worldwide this week. The 20-year-old, a self proclaimed fan of the Russian tennis lovely, confessed to...
[February 14, 2001, 13:54]
Anna Virus Writer Goes On Trial
News However, he claimed ignorance of the effect of his worm, which purported to be an email with an attached picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova. Jan de Wit, the 20-year-old who wrote the Anna Kournikova virus, went to trial on Thursday, but the...
[September 14, 2001, 9:46]
Zeta-Jones Virus Says Hello
News Typically such files, generally spread via email, purport to contain pictures of attractive females -- with the likes of Latino lovely Shakira, Russian tennis ace Anna Kournikova and US singer Jennifer Lopez all being used to disseminate malware...
[February 13, 2003, 16:46]
Dutch Treat? Netherlander Takes Credit For 'Anna'
News The attachment purports to be a photograph of Kournikova, a 19-year-old Russian tennis player. A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to writing the Anna Kournikova virus, as Excite@Home compiled evidence against a subscriber in...
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Hilton Hacker Sent Down
News The numbers included those of rapper Eminem, actor Vin Diesel, singers Christina Aguilera and Ashlee Simpson, and tennis players Andy Roddick and Anna Kournikova. A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and...
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
Saddam Used As Worm Lure
News One example was the Anna Kournikova virus, a mass-mailing worm that posed as a photo of the popular Russian tennis player. Photos of a "dead" Saddam Hussein are the lure for a new mass-mailing worm, Sophos warned on Thursday, in the latest instance...
[February 4, 2005, 8:25]
Bogus Microsoft Bulletins Closed Down
News Phony security alerts represent the latest social engineering trick for hackers, but virus experts predict that the pornographic trap as exploited in the Anna Kournikova virus earlier this year is still the most popular.
[July 18, 2001, 16:38]
