Bagle Turns To Anti-spam Trick
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told ZDNet UK it is ironic that the Bagle author is using an anti-spam trick against the "good guys", but said it won't present a big problem for antivirus companies.
[March 15, 2004, 13:05]
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]
Trojan 'kidnaps' Data
News Antivirus company Sophos said that although there had been no widespread outbreak, it could be part of a trend of "ransomware" — malware that attempts to extort money from users. This is the first time we've seen this in the UK," said Graham Cluley...
[March 15, 2006, 16:20]
Bagle Worm Spawns Five Siblings
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus company Sophos, said: "However good an ISP, Web email account or antivirus gateway product may be at scanning email, it will be useless at detecting the worm inside the encrypted Zip file.
[March 1, 2004, 12:45]
MyDoom Spreading Again
News Antivirus firm Sophos said the latest MyDoom variant searches an infected computer's hard disk for email addresses and then reverts to an Internet search. Sean Richmond, a senior technical consultant for Sophos, said that the latest variant was...
[February 17, 2005, 8:05]
Update: Shockwave Warning Puts UK Firms On Virus Alert
News UK-based antivirus firm Sophos issued a warning at 4am this morning after receiving a report of the virus from an Australian company. Graham Cluely, senior technology consultant with Sophos, says that the advice for computer users is simple.
[December 1, 2000, 9:59]
Brad Pitt Virus Targets Microsoft
News 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. Sophos said only a small number of reports of the worm had been received...
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley, said: "This is a really sneaky, cunning trick. However, Sophos's Cluley said Phatbot can be dealt with by regular antivirus software and may be garnering attention partly because of its new...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
News For more information, see Central Command, Computer Associates, F-Secure, McAfee, Norman, Sophos, Symantec or Trend Micro. The attached files are one of the following: document.zip document.pif doc.scr message.pif readme.exe file.zip message...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Help & HowTo: Sobig.e Worm
News For more information, see Central Command, Computer Associates, McAfee, MessageLabs, Norman, Panda, Sophos, and Symantec Since ZIP files are ignored by most extension-blocking rules within email clients, you should not attempt to open this file.
[June 26, 2003, 10:20]
Mimail.c Worm: Prevention And Cure
News For more information, see Central Command, Computer Associates, F-Secure, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro. The latest email worm disguises itself as a ZIP file of steamy photos from the beach.
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
MessageLabs: Watch Out For Audio And Video Spam
News Paul Ducklin, Sophos's head of technology for Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Australia that the voice sounded like a female version of "Marvin the Paranoid Android", a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
[October 30, 2007, 14:41]
Viruses Zipped Into Clever Disguises
News According to iDEFENSE, the problem stems from the method used by antivirus software to scan compressed files and affects applications from McAfee, Computer Associates, Kaspersky, Sophos, Eset and RAV.
[October 19, 2004, 11:30]
