Zafi Worm Dominates Email Systems
News The mass-mailing Christmas e-card virus Zafi.d is clogging huge amounts of bandwidth and now accounts for one in 15 of all emails, antivirus companies said on Thursday. According to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, most of Zafi's activity...
[December 16, 2004, 14:45]
New Zafi Variant Goes For Google
News The latest variant of the Zafi worm was discovered on Wednesday and unlike the previous two variants, Zafi.C has been coded to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Google.com, Microsoft.com and miniszterelnok.hu, which is...
[October 28, 2004, 12:04]
Christmas Number One Virus Plays On
News The Christmas card worm -- Zafi.d -- is still dominating the virus charts, as people continue to report having run the program thinking it was a seasonal greeting. Zafi.d, which in its third month at number one in the Sophos virus charts, contains...
[March 2, 2005, 13:40]
Christmas Card Worm Rips Back Door In PCs
News Antivirus companies warned on Tuesday that a seasonal worm, dubbed Zafi.D, is attacking users in the guise of an e-Christmas card. The Zafi worm, which has appeared at previous Christmases, travels as an attachment.
[December 14, 2004, 16:10]
Virus Top 10: Can Netsky's March Be Stopped?
News Zafi.B and Netsky.P have managed to notch up another month on top of the chart for the worst malware mischief-making. According to infections reported to antivirus firm Sophos during October, Netksy.P -- first sighted in March of this year -- has...
[November 1, 2004, 11:34]
Spam-seeding Viruses Dominate August Charts
News W32/Zafi.B-mm In their virus reports for August, software and Internet security companies said that viruses such as Netsky, Zafi and MyDoom, together with their variants, continued to dominate the charts.
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
Second Christmas Card Virus Ataks Users
News The virus, which is similar to the Zafi worm currently causing havoc on the Internet, spreads to all the addresses in the contacts book of email clients. But unlike the multilingual Zafi, Atak only sends itself in English.
[December 16, 2004, 12:15]
Netsky Number One Again
News Zafi.D 3.6 percent Zafi.B 2.9 percent Old timer Netsky.P last month regained its position at the top of the table of most reported malware, making up nearly 15 percent of all reported viruses in August.
[September 2, 2005, 10:20]
Worm Cuts Off Antivirus Programs
News The variant, called Zafi.B, is spread through email attachments in PIF. Zafi.B copies itself to the Windows System Directory when activated, and replicates itself as either "winamp 7.0 full_install.exe" or "Total Commander 7.0 full_install.exe...
[June 15, 2004, 10:05]
MyDoom's Spread Sparks Antivirus Critique
Talkback Over the past few months it has detected MyDoom, Bagle and Zafi before signature files where available. Sandbox technology used on Norman's anti-virus software can and has prevented prviously unknown malware including MyDoom.
[August 12, 2004, 14:57]
Netsky Tops 2004 Virus Charts
News It is simply shocking that Netsky-P and Zafi-B are still infecting computers, months after they were first protected against by antivirus companies," said Graham Cluley, Sophos senior technology consultant.
[December 9, 2004, 14:10]
Sober Worm Makes A Comeback
News Sophos said that the worm was fifth most reported virus over the last 24 hours, closely followed by versions of Zafi and Netsky. Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the Internet, according...
[April 19, 2005, 17:20]
Sober Worm Hits New Heights
News Cluley said that the second most prevalent virus, Netsky.P, accounted for 0.3 percent of all email viruses, and Zafi.D, the third most popular worm, was just 0.082 percent. The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than...
[May 9, 2005, 12:45]
Paris Hilton Worm Spreads
News The W32/Zafi-D virus which was released last year, is Sophos's most prevalent virus, accounting for 27.6 percent of all reports in the last 24 hours. An email worm promising explicit pictures of hotel heiress Paris Hilton is spreading widely...
[February 23, 2005, 15:30]
Tis The Season Of Christmas Scams
News Security experts have also warned of malicious software that can pose as an electronic Christmas card, like last year's Zafi pest. Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, chief executive of Comodo Group, a...
[December 22, 2005, 9:10]
New Bagle Released But Netsky Tops The Malware Charts
News Zafi.b accounted for 12 percent while Bagle.z was only responsible for 3.3 percent of infections. The 30th variant of mass mailing worm Bagle was discovered on Thursday, which makes it one of the most persistent worms ever discovered, but in terms...
[July 16, 2004, 16:05]
One Virus Writer 'responsible For 70 Percent Of Infections'
News The only non-Jaschan viruses in the top ten are MyDoom.A (fifth place), Zafi.B (sixth place), Sober.C (ninth place) and Bagle.A (tenth place). Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of...
[July 28, 2004, 17:35]
