EXE.or Com attachments, and according to F-Secure, the worm "terminates all applications that have 'firewall' or 'virus' in their file-name". However, internet security firm Symantec has listed the virus as having an "easy" threat-containment...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warned on Monday that recent security vulnerabilities represent a "new and growing challenge to innovation" and conceded that his company is under attack from "thieves, con artists, terrorists and hackers".
There are virus attacks that are not related to vulnerabilities but exploit user behaviour. While Microsoft currently provides free patches for vulnerabilities in Windows, Eckert said Sybari's software would carry a cost because viruses were...
The company acquired Romanian anti-virus company GeCAD last month for an undisclosed sum in what it said was an effort to better understand how viruses attack systems. Viruses are still a very visible threat to customers and so we need to improve...
The Spanish security company said that virus writers had released licence-protected multimedia files containing Trojan horses (WmvDownloader.A and WmvDownloader.B) that can exploit the anti-piracy features in version 10 of the Media Player and...
Ken Dunham, an analyst at iDefense, said on Tuesday that it is "highly likely" that new worms or Trojan horses will emerge in the next few days. Tools have been developed to exploit a recently announced Windows flaw, further increasing the...