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Virus bounty 'will change nothing'
News Security researchers disagree on the effect Microsoft's Anti-virus Reward Program will have on the underground world of virus writing. The initiative promises a reward of up to $250,000 (£148,579) for information leading to the conviction of the...
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
Virus writing: end of an era?
News Smith's conviction in the Melissa virus case -- the first successful prosecution of a virus writer in the United States -- will have a strong chilling effect on other authors of malicious code. Smith, 31, pleaded guilty in both state and federal...
[December 10, 1999, 9:27]
Virus causes Ministry of Defence outages
News The Ministry of Defence's administrative system has been infected with a virus, the MoD said on Friday. We can confirm there is a computer virus affecting a small number of MoD systems; however, there is no impact on operations," the spokesperson...
[January 16, 2009, 16:09]
Virus Alertness Tricks
White Papers When talking about computer virus protection, anti-virus software, and firewalls, it is important to stress that no virus protection system is foolproof. Even top security computer systems have been infiltrated time and again by hackers and...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
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 protectors get a brand new bag
News Anti-virus software is quickly going the way of the browser -- soon to be free and ubiquitous, said industry insiders Friday at the Virus Bulletin99 conference in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday. Last spring, for example, the Melissa virus infected...
[October 4, 1999, 9:01]
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]
Manufacturer Maintains Reliable, Virus-Free E-mail With Exchange Hosted Services
White Papers S&C engaged Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services to provide e-mail queuing, and later, virus and spam filtering. In addition, the company has addressed new e-mail system challenges with quarterly product updates and delivered virus-free Internet...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
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 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 hoax curtails Christmas fun
News As if there are not enough computer viruses, a Christmas Grinch has been spreading rumours of a virus attached to three year-end computer games. Three shareware computer games -- ElfBowling, Frogapult, and Y2KGame -- have become the target of a...
[December 15, 1999, 10:03]
Virus lands T-Online customer with giant bill
News This data was probably retrieved via a email integrated backdoor-virus named "Sub-Seven". Pickel advised Internet surfers to install a anti-virus programme to control emails and to change all passwords on a regular basis.
[August 9, 2000, 14:30]
Virus with SOCKS appeal targets corporate PCs
News A new variant of the Bagle virus incorporates a SOCKS proxy and Web services technology aimed at bypassing corporate firewalls, security experts have warned. On the F-Secure blog, Jarkko Turkulainen, the Finnish antivirus company's binary virus...
[August 8, 2005, 14:40]
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News Three London hospitals have had to shut down most of their computer systems after being struck by a virus. The virus first hit on Monday afternoon, according to a spokesperson for the Trust. The IT department put in place procedures to counter the...
[November 18, 2008, 16:07]
Virus 2000: Nasty and network aware
News Virus writers are finally catching on to something that tech companies have known for a while: If your applications don't use the Internet, you're behind the times. This next decade will be the decade of the worm," said Cary Nachenberg, chief...
[December 29, 1999, 15:33]
Virus Testing for Biological Products: Partnering With a Contract Lab
White Papers This paper is an introduction to the virus testing that is required for biological products. One's contract testing supplier should be a partner in the process to ensure that the virus safety requirements are met, and the testing strategy is...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
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 attacks fall
News Virus-laden emails dropped from 2.01 percent of all email in August, to 1.75 percent in September, the lowest level this year, according to email security company BlackSpider Technologies. Netsky.P topped the Blackspider virus chart for the seventh...
[October 3, 2005, 17:55]
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 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]
