Help & HowTo: Sobig.e Worm
News Sobig.e (w32.sobig.e@mm) arrives by email with an attached file and also spreads using shared network files. Because Sobig.e spreads via email and network share and may steal personal information such as passwords, this worm rates a 6 on the ZDNet...
[June 26, 2003, 10:20]
MyDoom: Prevention And Cure
News Because MyDoom spreads via email and could severely slow or shut down email servers with excess traffic, this worm rates a 7/10 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. The attached files are one of the following: document.zip document.pif doc.scr message.pif...
[January 28, 2004, 9:05]
Mimail.c Worm: Prevention And Cure
News Because Mimail.c spreads via email and may launch a denial of service attack, this worm rates a 6/10 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. The latest email worm disguises itself as a ZIP file of steamy photos from the beach.
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
Brad Pitt Virus Targets Microsoft
News If opened, the worm spreads to the users email contacts, disables security settings on PCs and launches a denial-of-service attack against Microsoft's security update Web site. The worm also spreads via file-sharing networks using filenames such as...
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
'Private Photos' Worm Could Launch DoS Attack
News According to McAfee's description, Mimail.c spreads by email, appearing in mailboxes as a message with the subject "our private photos. Schmugar said one of the more unusual aspects of the worm -- which McAfee classified as a "moderate" threat...
[November 3, 2003, 8:15]
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 The second piece modifies the virus to display a message on boot-up; the third turns the virus into a worm that spreads over IRC; and the fourth sends email to babylonia_counter@hotmail.com, probably so the virus writers can follow the program's...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
Update: Shockwave Warning Puts UK Firms On Virus Alert
News The worm, known by the names TROJ_Shockwave.a and W32.Prolin.Worm is not considered particularly damaging by antivirus firms, although it is a nuisance for users and could clog up corporate email systems if it spreads quickly.
[December 1, 2000, 9:59]
MyDoom Spreading Again
News Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, was spreading quickly on Thursday.
[February 17, 2005, 8:05]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News The latest Bagle incarnation has done away with the attachment altogether and spreads when a vulnerable user opens the email using an unpatched version of Microsoft Outlook. To fool antivirus software, the next batch of Bagles was sent with the...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
OS X Under Attack
News The first worm, dubbed Leap-A, spreads via Apple's iChat instant-messaging utility, and it only appears to affect Mac OS X 10.4 platform files. The latest reports say this is true even if you use Firefox to download the ZIP file.
[March 1, 2006, 12:55]
