Sobig.C is a mass mailing worm which will attack a PC and then email itself to all email addresses on the infected machine. All emails intercepted so far carry the same body text in the email: "Please see the attached file.
The most likely cause [for the rise in Australian hacker activity] is that the computers infected in Australia are staging points for other hackers overseas," said Hartman, adding that the main problem with viruses in Australia is that users are...
While the numbers sound overwhelming, the compromised PCs make up a fraction of a per cent of the computers connected to the internet and fall short of the 10 million computers infected by MSBlast, also called Blaster.
Maybe up to 8 percent of all home computers are infected, which means tens if not hundreds of millions of PCs. Trojans can be put on a PC by viruses or attached to dubious downloads, such as those you might get through file-sharing network Kazaa or...
Consumers are not always aware of the dangers of such threats as spyware, viruses and "phishing". A study published last October found that more than 80 per cent of consumers had been infected by spyware.
Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet millions continue to succumb to attacks that exploit unpatched holes in common platforms such as Windows or Java. The first computer viruses infected the boot sector of floppy disks, which...
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