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Trojan targets companies' top brass

News What it had in the attachment is an executable RTF file. L is for Love Bug The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said the spokesman, but the greater concern is the social engineering technique... [26 Sep 2007]

Virus warning: Klez keeps on spreading

News On some unpatched systems it is also able to spread without victims having to open an attachment or an email. It can also hide other damaging payloads, such as the Elkern virus, which it drops once the attachment is executed. [29 Apr 2002]

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Italian 'love bug' fails to bite

News It comes as an email attachment, Cartolina.vbs, which is set up to spread to all the email addresses on the system and to change the home page of Internet Explorer to an Italian music site. The email carrying the attachment has the subject line 'C... [09 Feb 2001]

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'Don't press this button' virus spreads despite its own advice

News The email arrives with an attachment entitled Navidad.exe and once opened, has a message written in Spanish which, translated, says "Don't press this button". The virus had spread in a similar manner to the notorious Love Bug by arriving in an... [13 Nov 2000]