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RSS sobig virusHow CERN reacted to the Blaster and Sobig virus attack
White Paper This PowerPoint presentation provides a detailed look at how CERN handled the Blaster and Sobig virus attacks. [03 Jul 2008]
The Convergence of Viruses and Spam: Lessons Learned from the SoBig.F Experience
White Paper This paper discusses the SoBig.F virus and the need for email protection. It then describes how MessageLabs protects against various online threats, and the precautions to be taken to protect against... [19 Jun 2008]
Anti-Virus Software and Disk Fragmentation
With virus attacks rippling through the internet - the quick succession of recent worm attacks like Sobig, Blaster, and the Welchia worm outbreaks - has created a security environment of unprecedented... [31 May 2008]
Anti-Virus Software and Disk Fragmentation
White Paper With virus attacks rippling through the internet - the quick succession of recent worm attacks like Sobig, Blaster, and the Welchia worm outbreaks - has created a security environment of unprecedented... [31 May 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment But in 2003, the malware landscape was irrevocably changed by the arrival of the Sobig virus. Unlike malware that came before, Sobig was all about spam. Heralding the beginning of the... [19 Nov 2007]
Nokia phones targeted by Trojan
News But MMS viruses are more comparable to email worms like Bagle, MyDoom, Sobig and others. The malicious software, dubbed "CommWarrior" and described as a virus by some antivirus companies, takes aim at... [08 Mar 2005]
Virus top 10: Virus writers go back to the future
News The virus chart also turned up one re-entry, with Sobig.F reappearing in the top 10. Sobig.F 2.5 per cent For the third month in a row, Zafi.D has topped the... [01 Mar 2005]
Spam museums to save junk email
News While not publicly displaying, the results of his spam deluge, Chen has charted the rise of spam and viruses for seven years and found by studying the contents of his inbox, that the spam phenomenon started to boom in 2002 and found the... [20 Sep 2004]
Microsoft's Sasser bounty hangs on conviction
News Although the software giant has placed quarter-million-dollar bounties on the heads of those responsible for the MSBlast worm, the Sobig virus and the MyDoom virus, no arrests have yet... [13 Sep 2004]
Virus writers shouldn't get off so easy
Comment The FBI and its counterparts have failed to convict anyone for a slew of viruses and worms, including Code Red, Nimda, SirCam, Klez, Sobig and Nachi. Light sentences for worm and virus writers is hardly... [18 Aug 2004]
Spam meltdown brewing in suburbia
News Similarly, an army of infected machines - or bot-nets - is being created by viruses such as MS Blast, MyDoom and Sobig, with the potential to harvest processing power for spammers' illegal operations. [04 Aug 2004]
Virus alert: Microsoft targeted by MyDoom wannabe
News The software giant is no stranger to malicious levels of traffic and as with the SoBig and MyDoom viruses the company claims to have in place measures to keep its website available. A new worm, called Zindos, is... [28 Jul 2004]
AOL claims one billion virus emails blocked
News During the peak of the Sobig.F outbreak in August 2003, AOL hit its own peak - for viruses blocked in a single day: 24 million in just 24 hours. AOL says it's blocked more than one billion virus-infected... [17 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's virus bounty
Cheat Sheet The announcement of these rewards followed the outbreaks of the MSBlast and Sobig viruses in 2003 which both targeted flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system (there are still rewards on offer for information... [10 May 2004]
Netsky virus writers claim to be behind Sasser worm
News Already, the software giant has promised three $250,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the authors of MSBlast, Sobig and MyDoom. The unknown team of programmers who created the latest... [04 May 2004]
