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Warning - Viruses Being Spread By Job-hunters
News Star claims to have closely monitored the transmission of viruses across it's system and believes that people sending CV attachments when applying for jobs are the greatest threat to a company's computer systems.
[July 7, 1999, 12:58]
Viruses Bring A Sting In The Tail
Leader Now imagine you are working for the other side, being paid to analyse the viruses and produce the patches. So you turn to triage, figuring out which viruses pose the largest threat, and releasing patches for those first.
[June 2, 2005, 14:00]
Viruses Cost Businesses $55bn Last Year
Talkback Sure, some viruses (i.e.user downloading and running a .exe virus disguised as a program from internet) are simply the users fault for which software companies cannot be blamed. But in many cases it is flaws in software which cause viruses to get in.
[January 16, 2004, 15:02]
Report: Viruses Spreading On The Double
News Computer viruses are proliferating faster than ever, according to British security company MessageLabs, which reported Tuesday that it caught as many pests in the first half of 2002 as it did in all of last year.
[June 19, 2002, 9:35]
Viruses Can Be Tamed - By Upgrading Users' Brains
News PCs are actually safer today than they were four years ago, when the first batch of mass mailing viruses -- such as LoveBug and Melissa were introduced. Antivirus firm Panda said that companies are running for cover as all four of Sasser's variants...
[May 4, 2004, 17:55]
Viruses: What Punishment Fits The Crime?
News A revelation on Thursday that a Taiwanese university had caught, and only lightly punished, the writer of the destructive CIH computer virus a year ago heated up the debate on what should be done to those who spread viruses.
[April 30, 1999, 7:54]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, And E-Mail Attacks (Level 300)
White Papers The presenter then explains how Microsoft IT cleans the remaining messages by removing threats posed by viruses, worms, and common malware distribution vectors such as file attachments. This webcast shows how Microsoft IT manages the large...
[April 30, 2008, 0:00]
Viruses Get Political
News Two viruses slowly spreading over the Internet contain messages of support for the Fathers 4 Justice campaign. Antivirus company Sophos has received reports of mass-mailing email viruses Mirsa-A and Mirsa-B -- two worms that contain messages...
[January 26, 2005, 15:50]
Viruses Find Easy Pickings In China
News At least 80 percent of China's computers have been infected with viruses, the official China Daily newspaper reports, highlighting the vulnerability of one of the world's biggest PC and Internet markets.
[October 10, 2002, 10:41]
Viruses: Could Your Business Be Liable?
News Last summer saw an unprecedented onslaught on computer systems worldwide by three viruses: Blaster, Nachi and Sobig. Further up the delivery chain, to what extent do software developers owe a contractual or tortious duty to design systems to be...
[January 6, 2004, 9:25]
IBM Security Solutions: Protecting Your Business From Spam, Viruses And Spyware
White Papers It needed to eradicate viruses and minimize the amount of spam being received. As a result of the e-mail security services, no viruses could penetrate the network through e-mail. A manufacturing company found that each of its 100 employees was...
[June 20, 2007, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Viruses: What Punishment Fits The Crime?
News A revelation on Thursday that a Taiwanese university had caught, and only lightly punished, the writer of the destructive CIH computer virus a year ago heated up the debate on what should be done to those who spread viruses.
[April 28, 2000, 7:00]
Viruses And DDoS Attacks Flood UK Firms
News According to the survey, 93 percent of smaller companies and 99 percent of large companies use antivirus software, which means around one in 14 small companies and one in 100 large firms have no specialist protection against viruses.
[March 2, 2004, 13:10]
Viruses Mimic 'worse-case Disease'
Talkback If these computer viruses were real 'worst-case diseases', what would the corresponding solution be? And to continue the analogy: Just curious.
[February 1, 2004, 11:34]
Top 10 Viruses: Macro Down But Still Major Threat
News According to a report from anti-virus software developer Dr.Solomons, Macro viruses account for just three of the most reported viruses seen in February, but this is expected to be a short term blip in the figures.
[March 13, 1998, 10:18]
Cell Phone Viruses: What? Those Really Exist?
Blog Cell Phone Viruses: What? At MyMobiSafe.com, as we continue to uncover increasing numbers of mobile viruses it makes us shutter to think about how many mobile users will fall victim to their fury. Those Really Exist?
[June 4, 2007, 19:36]
Using Mobile Agent Results To Create Hard-to-Detect Computer Viruses
White Papers The theory of computer viruses has been studied by several authors, though there is no systematic theoretical study up to now. The paper will introduce a new stronger concept: dynamic signatures of viruses, and present a method to design viruses...
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Email Viruses Show Dramatic Rise
News Email viruses are now almost twice as prevalent as they were in 2001, with one email in every 200 containing a virus. Virus-scanning firm MessageLabs said it stopped 9.3 million viruses in two billion emails this year, which equated to one virus in...
[December 16, 2002, 10:19]
Distributive Immunization Of Networks Against Viruses Using The 'Honey-Pot' Architecture
White Papers Although computer viruses cause tremendous economic loss, defence mechanisms fail to adapt to their rapid evolution. Previous immunization strategies have been characterized as being static and centralized, which has made virus containment...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
So That's What Viruses Look Like
Blog Viruses, eh? We hate 'em, yet frustratingly we just can't put a face to them. Well, Sophos can. The security firm has helpfully issued a range of pictures illustrating various types of malware, from rootkits (man injecting something into the bottom...
[April 11, 2007, 16:17]
