Microsoft also announced on Friday that an email hoax is circulating. The company's data measures the number of internet addresses that show signs of a worm infection. Moreover, it is uncertain what fraction of those compromised computers has been...
The unknown team of programmers who created the latest variant of the Netsky virus claim to be the authors of the Sasser worm - and researchers have found evidence that supports that assertion. On Monday, a new worm, Sasser.B, started to spread...
The Sasser variants can spread rapidly from an infected computer to one that is vulnerable without any user interaction. Three new versions of the Sasser worm boosted the infectiousness of the original, spreading to about 500,000 computers by...
One antivirus company, Panda Software, suggested the timing of the attack may indicate an "organised group of delinquents" is creating Sasser, since the company's detection of the latest infection came after the arrest of the 18-year-old in Germany.
The Sasser worm dominated virus charts for May, accounting for more than half the infection incidences reported during the month. Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, said: "Sasser was the major pain in the neck this month, affecting...
According to the Trend Micro World Wide Tracking Centre, Sasser was the most prevalent virus in August with 325,409 victims and made up nearly 31 per cent of infections in the August top 10 virus list.