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Spammers switching on to YouTube?

News Earlier this month, Sophos reported that spammers were exploiting YouTube's "invite your friends" function to send email spam containing a variant of the Storm Worm. On 17 October spammers used attached MP3 music files... [30 Oct 2007]

MyDoom brings down Google

News A pesky new variant of the MyDoom worm has slammed four popular search engines and continued to clog email accounts around the world. The novelty of this latest variant is that it appears to be able to... [27 Jul 2004]

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Malware

Virus warning: Bagle.Z gets poetic

News I don't anticipate this one to last long," he said, adding that the variant has had some initial success because the worm attaches itself to email in a control panel file, which is an executable not used... [27 Apr 2004]

Virus warning: Return of Sobig is so bad for spam

News A new variant of the Sobig virus has started spreading worldwide, raising fears that spammers will have a host of new PCs to use as platforms for sending bulk email. While there is no concrete proof that Sobig.E has been... [26 Jun 2003]

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The Spam Report

Sobig virus may be the tip of the iceberg

News A variant of the Sobig worm appeared over the weekend and is now spreading rapidly. This is the third Sobig variant to hit the internet this year, and security experts believe more variants may already... [03 Jun 2003]

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Security Strategy

Virus Warning: Navidad back in the wild

News The new variant is called Navidad.E1-m, and is essentially exactly the same worm in a different format. It works through the now traditional mass-mailing method, taking email addresses from the victim's Outlook address... [12 Apr 2002]