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Virus warning: Bagle variant has alarming attack strategy
News The Win32.Glieder worm spreads using a common mass-mailing method, relying on users to click on an attachment so it email itself on to names in the address book. The variants, which Computer Associates (CA) has given a new name - Glieder - because... [03 Jun 2005]
Virus warning: Multilingual anti-firewall worm found
News The worm is capable of transmitting in several languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, German or Finnish, said F-Secure, and spreads itself by collecting email addresses from the recipient's address book. [15 Jun 2004]
VBS/Chick.b@M
White Paper This Compiled HTML Help file contains VBScript to email itself to the first user in the Microsoft Outlook address book using MAPI messaging. Exact detection under the VBS/Chick.b@M name will be included in the 4195 DATs. [02 May 2004]
Information on Klez Worm Sending Viruses With F-Secure Name
White Paper This worm spreads by sending e-mail messages to addresses found from users address book - like most other e-mail worms. Instead of showing the owner of the infected machine as the sender, Klez replaces it with a random address from the address book. [28 Apr 2004]
Password-stealing Dumaru worm on the loose
News If run, this program will harvest email addresses from the user's local address book and forward copies of itself to them. The name of the unzipped file includes a large number of spaces to hide the final .exe and to make it look, at a glance, like... [27 Jan 2004]
Sobig virus devastation continues
News Sobig.F, like previous variants of the virus, forges the source address of every email it sends, using addresses culled from the Windows address book or found in cached web pages. The ISP said it saw a dramatic increase in the number of mail-record... [22 Aug 2003]
Sobig the worst worm ever
News The Sobig.F virus spreads by harvesting emails from web pages and from the address book of an infected computer. Sobig.F, like previous versions of the virus, uses an email address other than the victim's as the apparent source of email messages... [21 Aug 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking the mobile plunge
Comment Integration with the name and address book is highly effective. The phone itself is potentially a significant financial threat. No fraudulent calls were made, leaving me with only the problem of replacing the mobile phone itself. [08 Jul 2003]
Virus warning: Latest worm exploits SARS fears
News Called W32/Coronex the mass-mailing worm will infect the recipient's machine once activated and will email itself to every name in the infected machine's email address book. Proving that social engineering is the future of virus writing the latest... [23 Apr 2003]
Internet survives massive attack
News Like the telephone book, domain name servers match a name with a number. Traffic from several ISPs has been slightly delayed but because the domain name system is spread out and because the 13 root servers are the last resort for address searches... [23 Oct 2002]
Virus Alert: Shakira joins the chick-worm posse
News If the user runs the attachment the message forwards itself to every name in the users' Microsoft Outlook address book. A virus named after Colombian singing sensation Shakira has been reported to be spreading in the wild. [06 Jun 2002]
Worm alert: Maldal-I wriggling its way to an inbox near you...
News Anti-virus vendor Sophos said the worm can extract email addresses from web pages on the hard drive as well as from the Microsoft Outlook address book. The body text of the email is usually blank and the file name of the attachment is most likely... [22 Feb 2002]
The Ovum View: SIP sets the web generation talking
Comment These can range from simple point applications - such as clicking on an address book entry to set up a phone call - through to complex enterprise services like a web-enabled call centre suite. You check Jeff's status on your friends list and he's... [04 Feb 2002]
Virus alert: Two worms on the horizon
News The worm can also send itself to all entries in user's address book. The mass-mailing virus attempts to send itself to all users found in the Windows address book and email addresses found in the temporary web browser cache. [29 Oct 2001]
Nimda worm: 'Worse than Melissa?'
News When executed the file burrows into the email client and sends itself to everyone in your address book. The worm - full name W32.Nimda.A@mm - firstly attacks vulnerabilities in Microsoft's IIS web server software in a similar way to the Code Red... [19 Sep 2001]
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