Anti-virus experts have warned UK businesses of the threat posed by a variant of the MyLife worm. The variant works in a similar way to the original MyLife worm, which is a mass-mailer that sends itself to everyone in the recipients' address book.
The hackers had managed to break into Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for the newsletter, the company said. But Thursday's mass mailing of the virus wasn't the result of an infection, said Denis Zenkin, director...
While Bagle.B has outperformed expectations based on the simplicity of its programming, Carole Theriault, a security consultant at Sophos, believes the mass-mailing Netsky poses a greater threat. Antivirus vendors worldwide have updated their...
The latest variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm, discovered on Monday, masquerades as an official Microsoft patch for the MyDoom worm. Once a user clicks on the file, the worm scans the PC to see if it has already been infected.
Some Windows XP users asked for help on a support list when, as a side effect of infection, their computers displayed an error message and restarted. Airline Air Canada canceled flights in August due to its network being infected with a variant of...
A prolific new variant of the mass-mailing Bagle worm began flooding email accounts overnight with bogus price quotes. Those same techniques should also ensure a relatively brief heyday for the worm, as email security systems learn to block the...