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Virus Writers Wreak Havoc By The Hour
News Virus writers are updating their creations by the hour in a bid to outwit antivirus companies. Kaspersky believes that virus writers are increasingly testing their wares against antivirus protection before sending them out over the Internet.
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback Some virus writers moan about poor programming and companies charging lots of money for it, but at the same time are supplying the Anti-virus firms with even more money, so as I said, who do the virus writers work for!
[March 4, 2004, 13:09]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
News Like any community, the virus writers often are at war with each other -- rather like politicians -- but their war of words is taking place on users' desktops and users' email systems. To get their messages across, the worm writers are constantly...
[March 3, 2004, 12:30]
Virus Writers Latch Onto War Theme
News Virus writers have taken advantage of the onset of war to release an email supposedly offering a variety of war-themed attachments -- ranging from secret US spy pictures of Iraq to screensavers mocking US President George Bush.
[March 20, 2003, 8:51]
Virus Writers Use 'open Source' Methods
News But McAfee's report claims that more virus writers, especially those involved in organised crime, are forming communities and typically share information over IRC networks. Day said that few virus writers are devoting time to coding from scratch...
[July 17, 2006, 12:50]
Virus Writers Wait Anxiously For Melissa Verdict
News Days before the author of the most prolific computer virus in history receives his likely US jail sentence, evidence has emerged that virus writers worldwide are beginning to cover their tracks, according to one expert.
[February 16, 2000, 14:26]
Virus Writers Get Stealthy
News According to F-Secure, virus writers are putting more time into making their viruses stealthy in an attempt to sneak them past antivirus software. Because virus writers make money from viruses they can test them to a professional level," said...
[March 18, 2005, 14:20]
Virus Writers Need A New Order
Leader After all, what's the point of five hundred virus writers labouring for a month and only infecting twenty million computers, when one proprietary team of three can produce a virus in a week that hits fifty million?
[November 26, 2004, 12:30]
Virus Writers Take An Early Crack At .Net
News Virus writers have apparently made the early developer list for Microsoft's .Net initiative. Traditionally, virus writers look for what is coming out next and look at being the first at spreading viruses and worms on those new platforms.
[January 10, 2002, 9:37]
Police Arrest Suspected Virus Writers
News The Metropolitan Police, acting in conjunction with Finnish law-enforcement authorities, arrested three suspected virus writers on Tuesday. The computer viruses ran in the background on an infected computer without the knowledge of the computer's...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Chinese Cybercops 'nailing Virus Writers'
News A Chinese police force that is dedicated to fighting virus writers is getting results, according to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, China has worked effectively in fighting virus writers," said Natalya Kaspersky, chief executive of...
[December 9, 2004, 14:55]
Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers
News Virus writers have published what are thought to be the first examples of malicious code targeting an expected feature of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, around a week after the first beta of the next-generation operating system was...
[August 4, 2005, 16:25]
Sars Virus Exploited By Worm Writers
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos Anti-Virus, said: "The worm has been deliberately coded to exploit the public's genuine concern about Sars, and is just a further demonstration of the ways that virus writers attempt to use...
[April 23, 2003, 15:19]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback I find the whole virus issue very suspicious. Now, if I owned an anti-virus company I would depend on the weekly creation of new viruses. Without the never ending creation and spread of new viruses why would anyone purchase or renew their anti...
[May 20, 2004, 16:31]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback i am getting weird out of context messages.as: Status: U Return-Path: Received: from eastrolog.com ([218.81.186.54]) by kendall.mail.mindspring.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1b4BEC1Jc3Nl3pM0
[March 20, 2004, 9:22]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback This is from one of the Wizard of Oz books. Weird
[March 31, 2006, 7:48]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback this is comidy,hard core pc geeks having virus wars, only they would come up with a lame ass stunt like this and that one dude callin bagel a looser! omg! omg! there all losers!
[March 3, 2004, 17:46]
Virus Writers Get Stealthy
Talkback "Malware authors, many of whom now use viruses as a way of making money . How do they make money from writing viruses? Geoff
[March 21, 2005, 10:37]
Virus Writers Get Stealthy
Talkback By stealing your online-banking details and emptying your account, perhaps?
[March 22, 2005, 7:52]
Virus Writers Get Stealthy
Talkback Sorry to be pedantic, but don't you mean *Microsoft* Viruses? I know it goes without saying that 99% of any security problems don't affect any of Microsoft's competitors. In the same vein, it should be said loudly, clearly and often or the...
[March 20, 2005, 10:34]
