spread address book
Repartee for Windows E-mail Integration
White Paper It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a favorite victim of virus makers for its relatively easy access to the user's address book. [19 Feb 2008]
Microsoft Outlook: Security Features and Vulnerabilities
White Paper It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a favorite victim of virus makers for its relatively easy access to the user's address book. [19 Feb 2008]
Confessions of a CrackBerry addict
Comment So while flying the aircraft back to base, I managed to conduct a two-way diagnostic conversation by BlackBerry SMS, which ensured, thanks to having my Outlook address book replicated on the device, that I had a second engineer and a replacement... [14 Sep 2006]
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. Computer Associates Australia security architect Chris Thomas said: "We've seen... [03 Jun 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile data for business, at last
Comment The mobile is one item of technology almost everyone will carry, every time they leave their homes or offices, and the on-board address book makes it a more efficient calling device than a dumb old fixed phone. [04 Mar 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]
Virus warning: Wallon destroys Media Player
News When an unsuspecting user opens the infected attachment, it executes a piece of code that usually attempts to steal the user's address book and often opens a back door to give hackers easy access to the system's resources. [13 May 2004]
VBS/Horty-A
White Paper The worm sends an email to all contacts in the user's Windows address book. VBS/Horty-A is an email worm that uses Microsoft Outlook to spread. The email has the following characteristics: Subject line: Jenna Jameson pornstar free superf**k+photo... [06 May 2004]
W32/Aplore-A
White Paper When run, the worm drops and runs the VBScript email.vbs which attempts to send an email with the worm files attached to all contacts from the Outlook address book. W32/Aplore-A is a Win32 worm which uses Microsoft Outlook to spread. [05 May 2004]
W32.Gokar.A@mm (Symantec)
White Paper This worm will send itself as an attachment to all addresses in your Microsoft Outlook address book. It also will create an mIRC Script.ini file and an inetpub Default.htm file to try to spread itself. [21 Apr 2004]
5 years ago... US firms reel as Melissa virus spreads
News The virus - a Microsoft Word macro dubbed Melissa - replicates in two ways: by copying itself into Word documents via their underlying template, and by sending itself to fifty addresses from each user's Outlook address book. [29 Mar 2004]
Virus warning: Latest MyDoom takes aim at Record Industry
News PCs compromised by the virus send out virus-laden email messages using random addresses found in a variety of files, such as cached Web pages and the Windows address book. Neither site may feel much pain, however, as the virus has failed to spread... [23 Feb 2004]
Microsoft patches Hotmail after 'potentially crippling' security scare
News The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to use the interactions between Hotmail components to expose a user's address book and send emails. The two functions could have been used to start a Hotmail worm that would have spread whenever a... [16 Oct 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]
Virus warning: Sobig is so back
News The virus grabs email addresses from several different locations on a computer, including the Windows address book and internet cache, and sends emails to each one - thus propagating itself around the world. [19 Aug 2003]
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