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White Paper Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have propagated through email and have disrupted user PCs and corporate networks worldwide. Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every... [01 Mar 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 botnet phenomenon,... [19 Nov 2007]
Nokia phones targeted by Trojan
News But MMS viruses are more comparable to email worms like Bagle, MyDoom, Sobig and others. Antivirus researchers are investigating a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to mobile phones than Cabir. [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 most-reported-virus chart. The virus,... [01 Mar 2005]
Spamming tool forced to look for new home
News The program works in conjunction with "zombie-making" viruses such as the Sobig, Sober and MyDoom, and uses Windows PCs to send spam via an ISP's mail server to avoid being blocked by blacklists of domain names used by... [01 Mar 2005]
MCI accused of hosting spam tools
News Security experts at MessageLabs have confirmed that Send Safe was malicious and was able to manipulate any computer that was infected with the Sobig, Sober and MyDoom viruses. The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has... [14 Feb 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 been made in those cases. [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. So, says Declan McCullagh, the individuals who create these menaces... [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 emails since... [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 programmers, who have referred to themselves as the... [04 May 2004]
Security no worse than in 2002, says report
News The latest viruses - including the MyDoom, Sobig and Bagel viruses - leave behind a secret entry point into any system that has been infected by the programs. The number of public alerts about software security flaws... [16 Mar 2004]
