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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]
Virus Round-up: Treble Trouble
News Worm and virus overload networks Corporate networks worldwide are struggling under the double burden of the "good" MSBlast variant and a new version of the malicious Sobig email virus Sobig virus 'biggest epidemic yet'
[August 22, 2003, 15:10]
Virus Alerts: One Sublime, One Ridiculous
News The CIH virus triggers on the 26th of each month and attempts to over-write the flash BIOS found on new machines. However, as Electronic Arts points out, programs that are run from a write-only CDROM cannot be over-written, causing the virus to...
[November 11, 1998, 13:00]
Virus Writers Exchange Coded Insults
Talkback Yet more ways the Anti-virus companies can make money out of us mugs. Wonder what type of virus protection the writters of virus's use? Some virus writers moan about poor programming and companies charging lots of money for it, but at the same time...
[March 4, 2004, 13:09]
Organised Crime Behind Sobig - Virus Expert
News Such tactics effectively hand control of the machine over to the virus writer. The real question here has to be about the motives of the virus writer," said Simpson. This isn't just about writing a virus that will spread rapidly and break records...
[August 22, 2003, 14:10]
Organised Crime Behind Sobig - Virus Expert
Talkback virus creators are a right bunch of wankers what ever the reason for it.
[August 24, 2003, 23:30]
Linux: Virus Risks And Protection
White Papers However, it is vital to remember that no operating system is impervious to virus attack and just a single incidence of infection can have far-reaching effects. Enthusiasts consider Linux to be a reliable, easy-to-use and secure operating system.
[November 24, 2003, 23:00]
Virus Top 10: Can Netsky's March Be Stopped?
News Both viruses have stayed in the top 10 since they first surfaced in the wild, although Zafi.B had been leading the virus pack until this month. The virus saves itself to peer-to-peer shared networks with a variety of filenames, including supposed...
[November 1, 2004, 11:34]
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 Take An Early Crack At .Net
News Virus writers have apparently made the early developer list for Microsoft's .Net initiative. On Wednesday, antivirus companies received a copy of the first virus capable of infecting files based on Microsoft's .Net Intermediate Language, or MSIL.
[January 10, 2002, 9:37]
Virus Damage Costs Increase Fourfold
News It costs four times more to clean up after a virus than previously thought, according to a survey of large enterprise IT departments. Compared with previous estimates, costs associated with cleaning up after a virus or worm attack have increased by...
[December 2, 2003, 14:30]
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 Crashes Stock Exchange Systems
News The Russian Trading System (RTS) was forced to cease trading for an hour on Thursday after being hit by a computer virus. It's not clear which virus was to blame, but the RTS did reveal that it arrived over the Internet and attacked a computer...
[February 3, 2006, 16:25]
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 Levels Drop As Spyware Soars
News Just 0.37 percent of all emails scanned by SoftScan in May contained a virus. This time last year the percentage of emails containing a virus was ten times greater, while in May 2004 it reached nine percent.
[June 2, 2006, 10:20]
Virus Is Disguised As MSN Messenger Beta
News A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog on Tuesday. The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be...
[December 28, 2005, 8:45]
Virus Protection: All Roads Lead To A Multi-Modal Modular Approach
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to explain why we have concluded that the future of virus protection lies with architecture, rather than product, and why a multi-modal, modular approach makes most sense.
[September 26, 2003, 0:00]
Virus Protection Strategies To Combat Electronic Attacks
White Papers Every organization can expect to be subject to multiple virus attacks during the coming year. To protect against costly losses both host-based and network anti-virus solutions should be deployed. Astaro provides an ideal network anti-virus solution...
[April 18, 2004, 0:00]
Virus Jumps From PC To PDA
News A group of security researchers claims to have found the first virus that can jump to a mobile device after infecting a PC. The virus is a proof-of-concept bug and was not released in the wild, meaning that it doesn't pose an actual risk for PC and...
[March 1, 2006, 8:45]
Virus Alert: Europe Resists NakedWife's Charms
News The virus masquerading as an image of someone's wife, which struck scores of US companies on Tuesday, has failed to reach European shores, according to anti-virus experts, who say that European computer users may have benefited from an early warning.
[March 7, 2001, 11:17]
