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Virus Round-up: Treble Trouble
News Sobig represents the largest worldwide virus infection to date, judging by the volume of email blocked by Internet service providers This worm tries to fix MSBlast infections but leaves open another serious vulnerability - find out how to protect...
[August 22, 2003, 15:10]
US Report: CIH Virus Hits Firms Hard
News That opens up millions of corporate computers to potential infection. ZDNN has received only few reports of infection so far. Despite its destructive capabilities and infections reported worldwide, the virus has for the most part been kept at bay.
[August 27, 1998, 8:58]
A Year Ago: CIH Virus Hits Firms Hard
News That opens up millions of corporate computers to potential infection. ZDNN has received only few reports of infection so far. Despite its destructive capabilities and infections reported worldwide, the virus has for the most part been kept at bay.
[August 27, 1999, 7:00]
Viruses: Back With A Vengeance In 2004
News The August infection further expanded the open-proxy network, giving future variants the ability to spread even faster. By the time the Sobig.f variant came along in mid-August, the open-proxy network created by earlier variants helped Sobig.f...
[January 5, 2004, 10:10]
Hybris Virus: Sleeper Hit Of 2001
News Hybris' combination of slow spread and fast infection seems to have worked. First detected in October 2000, the worm has remained on the top ten list of worldwide infectors, according to statistics from Trend Micro's Worldwide Virus Tracking page.
[January 12, 2001, 8:47]
CommWarrior Mobile Virus Hits UK
News While this is the first reported CommWarrior infection in the UK, it's likely that other UK citizens have been sent the virus before, even if they didn't run it, as the MMS propagation method allows CommWarrior to rapidly spread worldwide.
[June 28, 2005, 17:05]
Zotob Worm Targets Windows 2000
News Mark Sinclair, technical services director at Trend Micro Australia, told ZDNet Australia that it was about to issue a yellow alert -- which means the worm is being reported in at least two [global] regions and there is a high potential for damage...
[August 15, 2005, 8:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Expect to see multimedia presentations on the joys of living in Bulgaria -- or Brazil, seemingly the new epicenter for digital infection -- or perhaps a quick game of Galaxians to play while your data is expertly packaged up and dispatched to...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
FAQ: The Code Red Threat
News Should everyone be worried about an infection? Because of that and the danger it poses to Microsoft Web servers, Microsoft, federal security agencies and trade groups hosted a globally televised press conference Monday to urge businesses to install...
[August 1, 2001, 9:08]
How To Stop Yourself Being Bitten By Bagle.az
News This will stop the infection upon contact and in some cases will remove an active infection from your system. It attempts to connect to about 100 Web sites worldwide to download a file called ws.jpg Using techniques learned from previous versions...
[September 30, 2004, 10:20]
Chernobyl Virus Ready For A Return Run
News It struck an estimated as 700,000 to 1 million PCs worldwide on April 26, 1999, with high incidences of infection in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. A three-year-old virus may damage some PCs Thursday when it's set to strike again.
[April 26, 2001, 9:37]
Dasher Worm Threatens Windows Users
News Three versions of Dasher - B, C and A, which emerged earlier this week - have infected at least 3,000 systems worldwide, Friedrichs said, noting the growth rate of the infection has since levelled off.
[December 19, 2005, 9:45]
Klez Variant Strikes Unprotected PCs
News Trend Micro's Worldwide Virus Tracking Center, a Web service that reports incidents of a virus infection aggregated from calls to Trend Micro's customer support and any instances found by its online virus scanner, says the Klez.H worm -- which...
[April 25, 2002, 8:56]
Police Arrest Suspected Virus Writers
News We believe the suspects created and adapted viruses with the aim of causing massive infection by spamming. Today's arrests will send a clear worldwide signal to the authors of malicious software that national borders will not limit the ability and...
[June 27, 2006, 16:45]
Code Red Sets Off New Alarms
News Code Red' virus re-infection expected on 1 August Tues 31 July: Security experts and the US government are publicly urging businesses worldwide to guard themselves against the Code Red worm - set to reactivate on Wednesday, with possibly dire...
[July 31, 2001, 15:42]
Inside The 'ILOVEYOU' Worm
News Computer security firm Network Associates estimated that 1,500 clients -- potentially tens of thousands of computers -- were hit by the wildfire infection, topping by half the number of clients hit by the massive Melissa virus last year.
[May 5, 2000, 8:35]
Mutant Bugbear Worm Targets Bank Security
News Soon after it surfaced last Wednesday, security software firms have upgraded the Win32.Bugbear.B virus from a medium level threat to high due to the rapid rate of infection. We have discovered a previously unknown functionality within the 32Bugbear...
[June 11, 2003, 15:38]
Patches Released For 'critical' Windows Flaws
News The company had previously released a configuration change designed to help prevent infection, but has yet to release a patch. Corporate VP Mike Nash announced the tool for Download.Ject during a speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
[July 14, 2004, 9:05]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
News MSBlast's slower infection rate is likely to mean that it will not cause as much damage. That worm spread to corporate networks worldwide, causing databases to go down, bank teller machines to stop working and some airline flights to be canceled.
[August 12, 2003, 8:55]
'MyParty' Worm Goes Global
News That detail, plus the fact that the worm attempts to send infection information to an email address at a Russian Web service provider, seems to make a case that a Russian created the worm. While it has spread worldwide, the number of infections is...
[January 29, 2002, 9:40]
