US Report: Gamers Believe Activision's 'SiN' Carries CIH Virus
News Someone would have had to uncompress the files, infect them, and then ZIP the application back up," he said. So it could be possible to accidentally infect the file. According to the company, the game demo was packaged as a self-extracting ZIP file...
[July 28, 1998, 10:50]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News The worm not only spams itself out," said Eric Chien, senior researcher at the Symantec AntiVirus Reseach Center, "but when it searches through the network drives (looking to delete files), if it finds another Windows installation out there, it...
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
Mimail.c Worm: Prevention And Cure
News It does not infect Linux, Mac, or Unix OSs. 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...
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
The Truth About Viruses, Worms And Trojans
News How do viruses infect a computer, and what sorts are there? They also search for software on the local hard disk and across any connected network to find more code to infect. AV software can also check files at the time they are copied onto a hard...
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
Babylonia Virus Loses Its Home Page
News It's the first that's able to infect Windows help files, according to Vince Gullotto, director of Network Associates ' anti-virus research team. This doesn't do the damage of a worm.explorer.zip, for example, but we're still worried," Symantec...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
'Private Photos' Worm Could Launch DoS Attack
News The Mimail.c worm, a variant of an earlier pest that achieved modest distribution by posing as a message from a company's information technology staff, was first detected late on Thursday and managed to infect a handful of PCs.
[November 3, 2003, 8:15]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News There are hundreds of different commands ranging from various types of DDoS attacks to stealing everything from the address book to deleting files and finding new hosts to infect. To fool antivirus software, the next batch of Bagles was sent with...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
There's No Worm In Your Apple - Honest
Talkback With the net, they infect an OS and try to transmit themselves via transmission sockets. In the old days, they spread to other machines by floppies, zip disks or file sharing. Viruses, on the other hand, attach themselves to files and try to...
[November 1, 2004, 19:07]
