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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 w32.mimail.c@mm) is the third variant of the Mimail virus family, and so far the fastest spreading.
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
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]
US Report: Gamers Believe Activision's 'SiN' Carries CIH Virus
News A CRC (cyclic redundancy check - used to check integrity of a disk) check would be done on the inside of the file, but the virus appends itself to the ZIP wrapper, not the EXE," he said. Someone would have had to uncompress the files, infect them...
[July 28, 1998, 10:50]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Unfortunately, unlike its major competitor, McAfee’s VirusScan, NAV 2003 scans ZIP files during the extraction process -- after you've downloaded them. We'd feel safer if NAV inspected ZIP files during the download.
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
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. This worm, which is the latest version of the Dumaru virus, was first detected on Friday.
[January 26, 2004, 15:50]
100% Anti-virus Gaurantee - Fallacy !
Talkback Their excuse is that a) it is a zero day virus and b) you have to have your service configured to their exact specification i.e.don't allow through zip files. What company (especially a software one) seriously works without allowing through Zip...
[April 16, 2007, 14:27]
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]
W32/Cervivec@MM
White Papers Inside the ZIP files is an executable named WORMS.EXE. This worm arrives as a zip file attached to an email, named WORMS.ZIP. When run, the worm adds a new value "Kernel Loader" to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows...
[May 2, 2004, 1:03]
Stellar Phoenix Zip Recovery
Downloads This advanced zip repair program restores damaged zip files after instances of virus attacks, unexpected system shutdown, media read error. Zip Recovery Software is designed to recover and repair corrupted zip files / .zip files.
[May 17, 2007, 19:46]
Swen Worm Tops Virus Charts
Talkback http://www3.ca.com/Files/VirusInformationAndPrevention/ClnSwen.zip Try this link for a great utility for getting rid of the virus from your system. Just start it and let it do the work .It works a treat!
[September 19, 2003, 23:43]
Vista Partition Files Recovery Tool
Downloads Windows vista data repair software tool rescue damaged zip, pdf, and rar files. NTFS/FAT windows vista crashed file recovery solution retrieves corrupted pictures images and audio video files data and repairs inaccessible NTFS5,FAT32 logical disk...
[January 30, 2008, 19:31]
001Micron USB Drive Files Recovery
Downloads USB zip drive repair tool to restore files folders. Pen drive USB removable media files folders restoration utility helps to retrieve your lost or deleted data, documents, directory, music files, video clips, movies etc from your storage media due...
[October 11, 2007, 14:31]
Nucleus Kernel ZIP
Downloads Nucleus Kernel ZIP recover files from corrupted ZIP archives corrupted due to incomplete download, virus attacks or CRC errors. During repairing process a complete scan of the damaged ZIP file is performed to locate and extract the recoverable...
[January 21, 2006, 19:16]
Kernel ZIP - Repair Corrupt ZIP Files
Downloads Kernel for ZIP recovers files from corrupted ZIP archives corrupted due to incomplete download, virus attacks or CRC errors. Kernel for ZIP - corrupted ZIP archive recovery software supports zip files compressed using Winzip or other zip...
[December 22, 2006, 16:46]
Touchstone Goes After LapLink With FastMove! 2
News A key feature of the updated suite is ZIPSync, a tool for backing up, transferring and cataloguing files on Iomega Zip drives. A virus scanner is also integrated and the product integrates with sister package PC-cillin 95 so that the anti-virus...
[December 17, 1996, 14:21]
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]
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]
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]
New Virus Creates Shockwaves
News Furthermore, the virus also changes the filenames of all JPG and ZIP files and then moves the files to the C:\ root directory. A new virus is beginning to send shockwaves around the world. The virus, known as TROJ_Shockwave.a arrives as an email...
[December 1, 2000, 8:41]
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. The "payload" is not serious: The program does not attempt to delete or copy user files, and so far the virus has been...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
