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Archive for the ‘Virus Alert’ Category

May 22nd, 2006

PCMag.com Reviews Vanquish Anti Spam Service

Are you tired of having spam slip past your anti-spam program or filters? There is a solution. An online spam filter service.
PCMag.com has just reviewed Vanquish. Vanquish doesn’t just block supposed spam, it blocks everything except the email you want. You preload your address book to start with and it then […]

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April 18th, 2006

Automatic Updates for Worms?

F-Secure Corp. is reporting that computers infected with one of the Bagle worm varients may receive automatic updates for the worm from the infamous Bagle spam gang.
The Bagle worm enables a hacker to download other malicious programs to the infected computer which can then be sent out as spam from that computer without the owners […]

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April 10th, 2006

Look Out Linux Users, Cross Platform Viruses Are Here

According to Kaspersky Labs, a new virus code has been released by hackers that can attack both Windows and Linux machines.
“Security researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend of viruses that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.”
Kaspersky Labs has given the virus the double name Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a […]

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March 16th, 2006

New Trojan Alert!

There’s a new trojan out there! Called Zippo by Kaspersky Labs, Cryzip.A by Panda Labs and cryzip by Symantec (Norton), McAfee, Trend Micro (PCCillin) and LURHQ, this trojan searches for and encrypts, in zip files, documents, images and a wide assortment of other data files. It then leaves instructions on how to pay […]

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March 11th, 2006

Top 10 Global Malware alerts

The top 10 most prevalent global malware for the week of March 3 to March 9, 2006, according to Trend Micro, the makers of PC-Cillin Internet security products.

WORM_NYXEM.E
SPYW_DASHBAR.300
SPYW_GATOR.F
HTML_NETSKY.P
WORM_NETSKY.P
ADW_SLAGENT.A
WORM_MOFEI.B
TROJ_AGENT.BCN
EXPL_WMF.GEN
JAVA_BYTEVER.A

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