The Outlook 2000 email Security Update and the Outlook 98 email Security Update will provide three added layers of protection from most viruses that spread via email attachments. Microsoft is developing a patch to protect Outlook email users from...
Surely by removing worms such as Melissa et al the ISP would ultimately relieve the load on their mail servers as they wouldn't have to deal with flood of mail sent by the viruses trying to spread. The bandwidth freed by preventing the spread of...
That weakness could be exploited to spread deadly viruses. The latest version of Microsoft's popular Outlook software has been shown to contain serious vulnerabilities which could leave users prone to viruses and hack attacks.
Malicious spammers' aim to spread viruses through electronic communication channels. Also, as wireless devices become more complicated and multifunctional (combined phone, cameras, MP3 player and so on), protection from viruses that are spread by...
The analyst group recommends that users check and fix security holes on key servers and applications, examine gateway mail server security so it cannot be hijacked, turn off auto responses to outside recipients when viruses or spam are detected...
The virus harvests email addresses on the compromised system, sends out mail to spread the virus further, sets up a web server and attempts to contact several internet relay chat (IRC) servers as a way to notify the virus's creator of that a new...