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.
A variant of the FunLove virus, Braid is written in Visual Basic Script and has its own email engine. Zenkin said he doesn't know how the hackers infiltrated the web server, which ran the Unix variant FreeBSD and the mail program Postfix.
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. By Monday morning, Symantec was able to confirm - by scanning for open FTP servers on computers...
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...
Or so you are led to think by the latest mass-mailing Sober worm variant to hit the Web, Sober.I. If executed, Sober.I copies itself to the registry to ensure it runs when the computer starts, and then begins to replicate itself.