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RSS name address bookVirus 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]
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]
Virus alert: Melissa stalks UK corporates again
News Once the document (Anniv.DOC) is opened, the virus emails itself to the first fifty names in the infected user's address book. MessageLabs is warning users to update scanners and be on the lookout for the document, which currently arrives in an... [18 Jan 2001]
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]
Phatbot is "the Swiss army knife of Trojans"
News There are hundreds of different commands ranging from various types of DDoS attacks to stealing everything from the address book to deleting files and finding new hosts to infect. We have seen lots of different versions of this Agobot, but someone... [18 Mar 2004]
Nokia and Land Rover go for mobile car comms
News The system is designed to let consumers access a mobile phone address book, make and receive calls, and manage text messages via the car's "central infotainment display. Marcus Stahl, a Nokia manager of automotive products, said in a statement: "We... [07 Oct 2004]
Top ten viruses: Old pretender still number one
News When executed SirCam picks out potentially confidential files from a user's 'My Documents' folder and emails them to contacts from the Outlook address book. The email virus continues to top the charts because it is programmed to constantly change... [03 Sep 2001]
Ballmer: 'I could have been a car insurance salesman'
News If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hadn't decided to take his college buddy up on a job offer as the software giant's book-keeper, he figures he probably would have ended up selling car insurance. Ballmer also remained tight-lipped over the new name of... [13 May 2005]
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]
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]
Simon Norbury
Q&A Last book read: Michael Palin's 'Himalaya'. Name: Simon Norbury. Don't let recruitment agencies have your email address. Simon (to my face! Who do you report to? Director of Policy and Communications. [28 Jun 2005]
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]
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]
