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]
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]
Vista PCs To Lock Out Rogue Software
Talkback Important: must unzip all files into a new folder, Won't work f you run it from inside the zip file. ( "1. Run WindowsXP&2003Activation.cmd to activate windows. If you're locked out and can't login because activation needed, please login windows...
[October 9, 2006, 1:38]
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]
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 vulnerabilities exist in the way the products respond to malformed archive files, and were...
[March 19, 2008, 13:07]
AltaVista Toolbar
Downloads Other popular features include a pop-up blocker, the ability to highlight (search terms), find (similar to CTRL-F but easier to use,) and shortcut lookups for weather, area codes, zip codes, time zones, and exchange rates.
[August 4, 2003, 11:31]
Brad Pitt Virus Targets Microsoft
News However, the emails contain a .zip file that contains the worm. People's appetite for salacious gossip is insatiable, and some may be tempted to run what appear to be pornographic movie files distributed across the Internet," said Sophos.
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News To fool antivirus software, the next batch of Bagles was sent with the infected attachment hidden inside an encrypted Zip file, with the password to open the file contained in the email's text. There are hundreds of different commands ranging from...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
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]
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. Mimail.c searches files on the infected hard drive for any email address, then attempts to send copies of itself to each of...
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
Yeah, Yeah, LOOK!, Bewerbung, And More Virus Variants
News Overwrites *.ZIP and *.RAR files instead of *.JPG and *.JPEG file. Hides *.PAS and *.ASM files instead of *.MP3 and *.MP2 VBS/Loveletter.n Alias: Variant Test Subject: Variant Test Body: This is a variant to the vbs virus.
[May 10, 2000, 8:44]
