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F-Secure marks birth of first PC virus
News The same could be said of the medium used to spread them: the boot sector is typically the first 512 bytes of a hard disk or floppy disk. Viruses have caused significant pain for... [20 Jan 2006]
Virus alert: Sober trio in the wild
News In recent months, Sober has been used in that country to spread rightwing propaganda. Last month, a variant of the Sober worm was spread as an attachment that claimed to be an old class photo sent by a... [16 Nov 2005]
Mobile phone virus claims are "bonkers", says Sophos
News Trend Micro claims the virus, dubbed Symbos_Cardtrp.A, has the potential to spread to PCs running Microsoft Windows. Responding to Trend Micro's statement, Cluley said unnecessary publicity could cause people to ignore... [22 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up The first mobile phone virus, Cabir, has spread to more than 20 countries, ranging from the United States to Japan and from Finland to South Africa, using only Bluetooth. Vonhogen is better known by his net alter ego,... [12 Aug 2005]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News The programs spread to vulnerable computers via chat room servers and file-sharing networks, experts said, and often go undetected by the PCs' owners. Intruders can remotely control a network of infected machines to... [12 Jul 2005]
'Some viruses are welcome', says anti-gypsy lobby
News Romanian security firm BitDefender has revealed that after releasing signatures to protect its customers from a virus that deleted files from their computers containing gypsy music, it was inundated with letters of complaint from... [13 Jun 2005]
Virus warning: Bagle variant has alarming attack strategy
News Computer Associates Australia security architect Chris Thomas said: "We've seen blended threats before where a virus uses several methods to spread but not like this. In this staged approached,... [03 Jun 2005]
Virus all clear: 'Your car is safe!'
News Technicians at F-Secure have quashed rumours that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth, after failing to infect the onboard computer of a Toyota Prius with the mobile... [10 May 2005]
Mozilla: Firefox 'as safe as a condom'
News The versions of Firefox up to version 1.0.3 have had terrible security risks," wrote one participant for the volunteer Firefox promotion, Spread Firefox. Firefox is the free web browser that offers greater privacy and... [20 Apr 2005]
Nokia phones targeted by Trojan
News CommWarrior has a greater reach than viruses that spread using the short-range Bluetooth technology and so could be forwarded more rapidly, researchers said. CommWarrior attempts to... [08 Mar 2005]
Internet viruses used to beat real live pests
News The way viruses spread on the internet has been helping ecologists work out how pests are spreading in the real world. The spread of the water flea by boats and other craft mimics the... [02 Mar 2005]
Virus drives into car computers
News Some mobile phone viruses already exist, such as Cabir and Skulls which spread by Bluetooth and infect handsets based on the Symbian operating system. Antivirus companies are researching reports that... [26 Jan 2005]
Virus warning: Mobile bug launches attack
News Only recent mobile phone operating systems are programmable to the extent that viruses can effectively spread. Until now, malicious mobile phone programs have spread using one mechanism... [11 Jan 2005]
Virus Top 10: Zafi.D gives users an unhappy Christmas
News The new variant of Zafi.D managed to spread so quickly due to its timely packaging - the virus payload was disguised by an HTML or text message that wished the recipient a happy Christmas and disguised the infected... [06 Jan 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment They are aware of the issue and believe someone has hijacked their domain to spread viruses. With phishing scams, viruses, worms and hacker attacks on the rise, Simon Moores looks at... [21 Dec 2004]
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