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A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among consumer PC users. Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header...

Steven Parker · May 3, 2005 with -1 comments

Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue to haunt tardy network administrators. According to an alert from the...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 5, 2005 with -1 comments

Thought I'd pass this along... A new "medium" risk virus/mass mailer is making the rounds, as being reported by most of the major virus systems. W32/Myparty@MM or W32.Myparty@MM arrives in an email...

· Jan 28, 2002 with -1 comments

Currently bidding at $1000.00 it seems that this guy has one of the 100 cards ever made in this series and he wants to sell it! If you wanna go take a look or bid...

Steven Parker · Jan 20, 2002 with -1 comments

The Gokar worm -- full name: "W32.Gokar.A@mm" -- spreads as an attachment to an e-mail. The subject line and text of the message can be any combination of more than two dozen options, according to...

· Dec 13, 2001 with -1 comments

SecurityFocus has identified a new hybrid tool that combines distributed denial of service (DDoS) tools, with the automated propagation techniques previously seen only in worms. SecurityFocus ARIS Incident Analysts identified a rapidly...

· Nov 21, 2001 with -1 comments

While updating my virus thingy on our network, I spotted this recent addition to respective virus databases. A computer worm that spreads to both servers and PCs running Microsoft software flooded the Internet...

· Sep 18, 2001 with -1 comments