Win32.Yerg (Kaspersky)
White Papers This is a relatively harmless, non-memory, resident, parasitic, encrypted Win32 virus. It searches for Win32 EXE applications (PE EXE files) with .EXE and .SCR file name extensions, then infects them.
[April 17, 2004, 1:04]
Beware Of WORM.BUMERANG (Kaspersky)
White Papers Beware of Bumerang Kaspersky Labs reports the latest addition to the Virus Encyclopedia, Worm.Bumerang. This is a very dangerous Win32 worm virus. The virus itself is Windows PE EXE file about 23Kb in length (compressed by UPX, with a decompressed...
[April 17, 2004, 1:04]
Valentine's Day Brings Spam And Scams, Warns FBI
Blog Security vendor Kaspersky has a slightly different take on a similar story -- the Russian anti-malware company has reported a spike of spam this morning (February 14), and mass mailings since Monday: Kaspersky Lab has detected a large-scale global...
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
BadtransII Reaches Global Epidemic Proportions (Kaspersky)
White Papers Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports about the global epidemic being wrought by the Internet virus-worm BadtransII. To date, this malfeasant worm has outstripped other cases of infections by other viruses...
[April 20, 2004, 1:04]
Seagate Ships Virus-infected Hard Drives
News Seagate said that antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives. Seagate has advised users to clear infected units by installing the latest virus definitions for their...
[November 14, 2007, 7:29]
Happy Christmas! Here's Your Virus
News Inside the virus is a text string with a poem full of expletives criticising those who preach religion: "I don't wanna hear it, coz I know none of it's true," the author writes, according to anti-virus research firm Kaspersky Lab.
[August 19, 1999, 9:01]
TomTom Ships Malware On Sat-nav
News TomTom also recommended that people without antivirus protection should download free antivirus software from Kaspersky or Symantec. Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that it has shipped two viruses on a number of its devices.
[January 29, 2007, 12:49]
BadtransII Is Out There: Additional Text (Kaspersky)
White Papers This is a worm that spreads under Win32 systems. The virus sends e-mail messages with infected files attached, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems.
[April 17, 2004, 1:04]
