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F-Secure Products Are Vulnerable, Warns F-Secure
News In a security bulletin, F-Secure said that an attacker could execute the code of his choice on affected systems by using specially crafted ZIP files to circumvent F-Secure antivirus products and cause a buffer overflow.
[January 19, 2006, 16:20]
Antivirus Software Decrypts Bagle Attachments
News Recent versions of the Bagle worm have bypassed corporate gateway security because they are distributed in password-protected Zip files, which are next to impossible for antivirus programs to scan. Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at...
[March 4, 2004, 16:50]
Bagle Worm Spawns Five Siblings
News This means that enterprises are unlikely to detect the virus at the perimeter because .zip files are not usually blocked and the encryption means that antivirus scanners will not be able to unzip the file: "This way they get through many gateway...
[March 1, 2004, 12:45]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
News The attached files are one of the following: document.zip document.pif doc.scr message.pif readme.exe file.zip message.zip oia.zip text.zip MyDoom (w32.mydoom@mm, also known as Novarg, Shimgapi, Shimg, and MiMail.r) takes advantage of the...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Bagle Turns To Anti-spam Trick
News Within days, antivirus companies updated their products to look for the password and decrypt the Zip file, but the Bagle author has now released these three new versions of the worm that produce the password in the form of a graphic or picture...
[March 15, 2004, 13:05]
Norton AntiVirus 2004 review
Reviews Default settings provide strong security by automatically deleting viruses and scanning compressed ZIP files, as well as stopping spyware and Trojans from infecting your PC. Previous versions of NAV detected viruses embedded in ZIP and other...
[September 29, 2003, 9:00]
PKZip For Windows 8.0 review
Reviews It also offers integration with popular email and antivirus programs so that you can create, antivirus-check, and send a ZIP archive from within Microsoft Outlook. You can create new ZIP file archives manually, by either right-clicking the files...
[June 25, 2004, 12:05]
Dumaru Worm Comes Sniffing Again
News Such systems often block .exe files, but usually allow .zip files through. It comes with an attachment called myphoto.zip, which contains an executable file. All the major antivirus vendors are thought to have updated their signature files to...
[January 26, 2004, 15:50]
ALZip
Downloads You can open 36 archive and compression file formats, open CD image files (ISO, BIN), open virtual CD files (LCD), create 8 archive and compression file formats, create self-extracting files (EXE), split files for easy transfers, recover lost...
[January 25, 2007, 11:31]
Antivirus Holes Zipped Up
News Sophos has enhanced its scan engine (Version 3.87.0) to deal with malformed ZIP files. Sophos updated its antivirus engine on Wednesday to plug a security hole that allowed virus writers to manipulate compressed files and avoid detection by the...
[October 20, 2004, 9:30]
Help & HowTo: Sobig.e Worm
News Since ZIP files are ignored by most extension-blocking rules within email clients, you should not attempt to open this file. The attached file is your_details.zip. The body text for Sobig.e may also read "Please see the attached zip file for details.
[June 26, 2003, 10:20]
'Private Photos' Worm Could Launch DoS Attack
News Schmugar said one of the more unusual aspects of the worm -- which McAfee classified as a "moderate" threat -- was its use of a Zip file, which could prove to have longer legs than the .exe files most worms try to spread.
[November 3, 2003, 8:15]
Panda Antivirus Platinum 7.0 review
Reviews Like McAfee, Panda scans ZIP files as they're downloading to your PC, but you have to change the default settings to activate this feature. By comparison, Norton AntiVirus won all of its tests, while McAfee VirusScan won its only test during that...
[January 9, 2003, 9:06]
Mimail.c Worm: Prevention And Cure
News The latest email worm disguises itself as a ZIP file of steamy photos from the beach. The attached filename is photos.zip. Most antivirus software companies have updated their signature files to include this worm.
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
MyDoom Hits Music Industry
News The MyDoom.F virus spreads using a variety of subject lines and message text, usually attaching itself to the message as a Zip compressed file. The variant, MyDoom.F, deletes several different types of files stored on an infected computer and aims...
[February 23, 2004, 7:10]
Babylonia Virus Loses Its Home Page
News This doesn't do the damage of a worm.explorer.zip, for example, but we're still worried," Symantec researcher Eric Chien said. By Tuesday morning, 25 customers of the antivirus firm Symantec were infected by W95.Babylonia, and about 25 Network...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
F-Secure Warns Of Archive Protocol Danger
News The University of Oulu researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in various archive file formats, including ZIP, as part of their Protos Genome Project. The Secure Programming Group at Oulu University has created a collection of malformed archive...
[March 19, 2008, 13:07]
SystemSuite 4.0 review
Reviews SystemSuite uses a two-paned interface offering utility categories on the left -- Firewall, Antivirus, Optimize And Maintain, Diagnose, Fix, Recover, Uninstall, Cleanup, and Zip. However, unlike Norton AntiVirus 2002, it doesn't scan outgoing email...
[November 12, 2001, 23:00]
Trojan 'kidnaps' Data
News Zippo-A (also known as CryZip) searches for word documents, database files and spreadsheets, and converts them to password encrypted zip files on the user's computer. Antivirus company Sophos said that although there had been no widespread outbreak...
[March 15, 2006, 16:20]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News While first noticed in Israel on Sunday, the worm -- also known as TROJ_EXPLORE.ZIP and I-Worm.ZippedFiles -- struck hardest in the United States on Thursday, shutting down several major companies for hours and deleting critical files.
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
