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RSS virusHackers multiply Melissa virus threat
News Kevin Street, technical manager at security specialist, Symantec, warned today that new strains of the Word macro virus will start to appear in other Microsoft applications such as Excel. It depends on the... [31 Mar 1999]
Net closes in on Melissa's creator
News Software engineers hot on the heels of the hacker that created the Melissa virus are close to uncovering his or her identity. The software sleuths have tracked down an email address through the Web site where the... [30 Mar 1999]
Melissa virus hits the UK
News UK companies are under siege this morning from Melissa - the prolific virus that is ravaging corporate America. Security specialist, Network Associates says it has been inundated with distress calls from major clients... [30 Mar 1999]
US firms reel as Melissa virus spreads
News Corporate America was thrown into panic over the weekend by a fast-spreading computer virus that overloads email servers. The virus - a Microsoft Word macro dubbed Melissa - replicates in two ways: by... [29 Mar 1999]
Symantec posts Intel chip ID fix
News Anti-virus specialist, Symantec is today claiming it can protect against abusers of Intel's Pentium 3 identity feature. The anti-virus company has posted a piece of software on its Web site... [22 Mar 1999]
Virus timed to detonate on 26 April
News IT managers are being warned to be on guard for a deadly computer virus that could seriously affect machines and networks on 26 April. It says the virus - known as CIH - is capable of overwriting the... [11 Mar 1999]
UK Web sites get mark of approval
News A company's Web site will have to conform to a number of accreditation criteria - including being virus-free - and it must show that consumer information is kept private. The Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) has... [03 Mar 1999]
Corporate insurance leaves firms vulnerable to computer crime
News Many companies could be leaving themselves open to serious losses incurred through hacking attacks and virus infections because of inadequate insurance protection, according to security firm Wick Hill. [25 Jan 1999]
Web virus threat fails to materialise
News An apparently lethal Web virus uncovered by Finjan Software may be no more than a damp squib. Finjan has posted a patch for the Russian New Year virus, which can be downloaded from... [06 Jan 1999]
Intelligent virus targets Windows NT networks
News Network Associates (NA) has uncovered an 'intelligent' virus which attacks corporate networks. Called 'Remote Explorer', the virus is particularly deadly to Windows NT networks. NA is working on a way to... [22 Dec 1998]
US security vendors work together on common standard
News Common Content Inspection will enable anti-virus software and scanning products to easily interoperate with firewalls, virtual private networks, routers and other security devices. US security vendors have started... [16 Nov 1998]
Signing up the competition - have digital signatures met their match?
Comment It certainly takes longer to detect a hack than a virus, because viruses are spread between machines and they usually crash them. Digital signatures may have hit the headlines for securing ecommerce transactions, but in... [12 Nov 1998]
Net chat forum attacked by Windows virus
News Internet Relay Chat has been hit by a Trojan Horse virus, which could affect as many as 15,000 of its users. The global chat network was infected with a virus programmed to retrieve a file from the... [08 Oct 1998]
Symantec swallows up Intel's anti-virus arm
News Symantec has bought Intel's anti-virus business for an undisclosed fee and will integrate it with its own Norton brand by the end of the year. Symantec claims it will retain support for existing Intel customers after the... [29 Sep 1998]
Open source code gets boost with UK conference
News You simply can't have a virus using Linux - just because of the way it was developed," he said. A meeting to discuss the future of open source code software - such as the Linux operating system - is to be held in January... [15 Sep 1998]
