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Showing 1-18 of 18 results foundTeen gets 18 months in prison for worm
January 28, 2005 Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, must also participate in 10 months of community service for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.MSN Messenger hit by double-whammy worm
February 3, 2005 New Bropia offshoot, which uses MSN Messenger to spread, is packaged with a second, more damaging worm.Cabir worm code wriggles onto Web
December 30, 2004 Source code for variants of the cell phone worm is published online, raising fears that more offshoots are on the way.Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo
December 28, 2004 Santy worm, which used Google to bring down bulletin board pages, now uses AOL and Yahoo search.Week in review: Worm wallops Windows
August 19, 2005 It seemed harmless at first, but mutant versions of Zotob turned out nasty. Are warring hackers to blame?This week in security
August 19, 2005 It seemed harmless at first, but mutant versions of Zotob turned out nasty. Are warring hackers to blame?Sober.P overflow has Web tipsy
May 3, 2005 The latest variant of the worm is out of the bottle and carousing on the Net. Also: Spyware's where the money at.Updated MyDoom targets Google--again
February 17, 2005 Worm searches for e-mail addresses in the infected PC's domain--targeting all users from a specific company or ISP.Worms and viruses slip past defenses
June 2, 2005 roundup Bagle variants whip up a blended threat for a bad new concoction. A cell phone interloper, meanwhile, poses as a friend.Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool
August 18, 2005 Software also kills several variants and other bugs that exploit the same vulnerability, a flaw in Windows' plug-and-play feature.Sober worm offshoot trades on Paris Hilton, FBI
November 22, 2005 Worm variant flares up in the wild, playing on lure of heiress and fear of Fed snooping, but is coming under control.Flawed code throttled spread of Zotob variants
August 19, 2005 Some versions contained coding errors that sent PCs into a reboot loop, instead of working to spread the infection, experts say.Worms on the prowl, traveling via MSN Messenger
March 8, 2005 Antivirus companies have identified two new threats that use Microsoft's IM software to spread.Windows worms knocking out computers
August 16, 2005 Network worms are shutting down computers running Windows 2000, security experts warned.This week in security
February 4, 2005 There's no business quite like the worm business, apparently.Sober.Q spreads hate messages in German, English
May 16, 2005 Distribution method of new worm may mean that Sober authors have remote control over thousands of PCs.Anna virus fades late in game
February 13, 2001 Variants of a virus capitalizing on the popularity of 19-year-old Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova fail to add momentum to the worm's spread.Alarm growing over bot software
April 30, 2004 Many network administrators fret about the next worm, but security experts warn that a quieter, equally damaging threat is gaining control of large networks of computers.
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