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British student prevents computer virus outbreak
News Hillman told The Telegraph that he used his course skills to track the source of the virus. A British teenager has prevented the outbreak of a computer virus that he discovered when logging on to an Internet chatroom.
[August 17, 2001, 9:23]
EAL
Talkback If that happens, then of course the anti-virus vendors won't be happy. I was also intrigued to read the previous comment, from 2000387609, who argues it is users with common sense that scares anti-virus companies the most.
[June 15, 2007, 16:01]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks hail new e-minister
News A researcher sounded genuinely disturbed about the capabilities of this virus: "Basically the hacker has total access to your computer without you even knowing it. This started off as a rather arcane parody of an earlier virus hoax, and urged...
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
The Week in Review: Lair of the SQL worm
News The Beeb accidentally ploughed fans of The Archers radio drama with the a mass-mailing virus. The Archers fans ploughed by email virus And of course there's this other company called Nintendo to contend with.
[February 7, 2003, 15:55]
Viruses, worms, and Trojans return with a vengeance
News Just when you thought virus and worm attacks had finally slackened and no longer needed to top your list of concerns, new attacks are conspiring to bring malware concerns back to the forefront of security thinking.
[June 9, 2005, 11:25]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback To the best of my knowledge OSX has NEVER had a virus and has been around for years. Linux smaller market share hasn't been so invulnerable but their virus count is tiny compared to the 1970's era sieve that Microsoft calls Windows.
[January 27, 2004, 19:57]
Microsoft exposes serious IE vulnerability
News There has been a considerable increase in the number of significant virus and worm attacks in the past two weeks. After several slow, quiet months on the virus front, the Sober worm has returned with a vengeance.
[November 29, 2005, 16:45]
Virus writers need a new order
Leader It is with some trepidation that we report on the rise of the open-source virus. It's time for the virus writing community to listen to Microsoft, and do a proper TCO, time to market and deployment cost analysis.
[November 26, 2004, 12:30]
Nyxem destruction begins early
Talkback The virus is only aimed at Windows. Of course. Olavi Petri wrote: As usually Mac, Linux, BSD, QNX, BeOS, are all unaffected. Only MS' defective products are on the line here.
[February 3, 2006, 12:51]
Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'
Talkback I just bought a new laptop, and of course it came with VIRUS, I mean VISTA installed. I put up with it for 2 days, and then formatted the hard drive and installed PCLinuxOS. It now runs faster, uses less memory, is more productive, and I have to...
[April 14, 2008, 13:25]
MSN Messenger hit by virus, outage
Talkback my friend ended up sending the virus to me asking 'is that you? and of course a link to it, so duh I clicked the link.my computer stopped for a few seconds as it did nothing, but then random people who were online my msn, their convo's were all...
[October 8, 2006, 21:36]
Antivirus virus on the loose
News However, occasionally, a virus contains a more interesting wrinkle than being named after a tennis player or teen-punk idol. For example, tech security companies are warning of a new virus designed to attack a version of the already-existing Yaha...
[January 20, 2003, 9:23]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback it takes time of course but this might be the only solution if you don't know what the virus is.hope this helps Did you try an online virus scan from the Trend Micro Housecall website?
[January 13, 2005, 12:55]
CA reveals 'high risk' flaw
Talkback .of course, a bigger security risk is that CA will not be updating virus signatures for Inoculate IT v6.0 in September! Typical "upgrade or else" bullying from CA!
[May 25, 2005, 11:45]
CommWarrior
Talkback I carry a Nokia 3230, which is badly affected by this Virus i.e. Not sure what should be done to get rid of this Virus. I got my phone memory formatted and later got my Memory card too (of course I lost all my valuable data).
[January 15, 2007, 15:04]
Sober climbs November worm charts
Talkback Thank heavens M$ has a regular patching schedule so the virus writers know when to attack. This is the second reason I upgraded to Linux, security being the first of course.
[December 2, 2005, 12:20]
MSN Messenger hit by virus, outage
Talkback This thing just came up, like one of my online friends asking if it was me they saw on a website, so of course i clicked it, n then I accidentally installed a program(which is a virus) n I can't delete one of the files.
[October 20, 2006, 21:12]
Cleaning Autostart Registry Entries
White Papers Some, like anti-virus programs and system utilities, are needed to keep your system running smoothly; but many of the background processes are often not necessary at all and only make your system run slower.
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
Microsoft Anti-Virus - Extortion, Expedience or the Extinction of the AV Industry?
White Papers Off late Microsoft released MSDOS 6.0, which included Microsoft Anti-Virus, a re-branded and ill-conceived entry into the anti-virus industry. It was obvious that Microsoft would become a player in the anti-virus industry at some level.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Outlook Express Backup Toolbox
Downloads Nevertheless, a lot of things may cause it, from virus attacks to incorrect actions performed by the user. Of course, losing them may do a lot of harm. Nowadays e-mail is one of the main channels of information exchange not only for companies, but...
[August 14, 2009, 7:58]
