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Virus warning: Multilingual anti-firewall worm found
News Manager for F-Secure, Mikael Albrecht, says the worm is particularly complicated as it has the capacity to penetrate firewalls and antivirus applications in order to "help itself spread further". A new worm variant that can terminate antivirus... [15 Jun 2004]
Doomjuice - virus writers get sneaky
News A worm that started spreading on Sunday places the source code for the original MyDoom virus on victims' hard drives, an action equivalent to planting evidence, antivirus experts said Tuesday. The author may be using the tactic to create a crowd of... [11 Feb 2004]
Virus Top 10: No surprises in 2004
News This indicates most people have still not updated their antivirus, and we believe it's mainly coming from home users, who then spread them to businesses. It is simply shocking that Netsky-P and Zafi-B are still infecting computers, months after... [09 Dec 2004]
Virus top 10: A Sobering return
News February's malware figures from antivirus firm Sophos show that young upstart MyDoom.A has lost out to old hand Sober.C, with 35.3 per cent of all virus reports in February, compared to 25.3 for MyDoom.A. [01 Mar 2004]
Zotob worm fails to wreak havoc
News As of Monday morning on the west coast of the US, the original Zotob.A had infected about 50 computers worldwide, and the first variant, Zotob.B, had compromised about 1,000 systems, the antivirus software maker said. [16 Aug 2005]
2004 has become the year of the computer virus
News The prolific Netsky.P accounted for 21.4 per cent while the .B and .D variants accounted for 11 per cent and 6.8 per cent respectively, according to antivirus vendor Sophos, making Netsky in all its forms by far the most prolific. [30 Jul 2004]
Virus Top 10: Zafi.D gives users an unhappy Christmas
News The most reported virus last month, according to antivirus firm Sophos, was Zafi.D, first spotted halfway through December and taking over 36 per cent of all virus reports. The new variant of Zafi.D managed to spread so quickly due to its timely... [06 Jan 2005]
Virus warning: UK wakes up to Netsky.Peak
News Reports are pouring in of UK companies waking up to a barrage of emails resulting from the Netsky variant P hitting what one antivirus expert has described as its "peak". The worm appeared earlier in the week to little fanfare but businesses across... [24 Mar 2004]
Sasser worm infects a million computer systems
News Security researchers believe it likely that the unknown team of programmers, who have referred to themselves as the Skynet Antivirus Team, and have been responsible for almost 30 variations of mass-mailing computer virus Netsky, may also have... [04 May 2004]
Skulls Trojan carries worm into handsets
News Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said that Skulls represents only a mild threat to mobile device users at this point, based on its Trojan horse design. The Trojan horse, though, can only be downloaded and does not spread... [30 Nov 2004]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News A is for Antivirus It shows that signature based antivirus is not enough; you need more technology than that. The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said the spokesman, but the greater concern... [26 Sep 2007]
Virus Top 10: Sober return topples Zafi
News IT managers in their daily firefight against viruses saw a massive spike in the instances of Sober-N as it displaced Zafi-D atop the 'least wanted' list provided by antivirus firm Sophos. That message text, as well as subject lines referring to... [01 Jun 2005]
The A to Z of security
News Once a virus has been detected the antivirus software will quarantine it, so it cannot spread, then attempt to erase it and repair any file-damage caused. Click on the links in the box for the security A to Z - from antivirus to zero-day. [14 Nov 2006]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News A is for Antivirus The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. B is for Botnets The group - which includes the American Academy of... [10 Apr 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News A is for Antivirus The spread of WiMax networks across the UK is continuing, with two providers announcing extensions of their business-oriented networks in the past week. B is for Bluetooth On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the... [10 Jul 2008]
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