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Win32.VB worm spreading quickly
January 18, 2006
Mass-mailing e-mail worm jumps to the No. 3 spot on F-Secure's virus chart, but poses little risk.
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Virus pits itself against music pirates
April 22, 2005
File sharers are the target of a virus that deletes music collections.
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Gartner: Beware of Mac OS spyware
March 29, 2005
The research firm is warning companies using Mac OS to guard against malicious-code attacks and spyware.
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Recon worms on the way, experts say
June 10, 2005
Viruses that reconnoiter your computer for flaws before they attack are expected to become more common.
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'Nimda' worm strikes Net, e-mail
September 19, 2001
The Nimda worm floods the Internet with scans for vulnerable servers and e-mail, prompting the FBI to create a task force to investigate the attack, sources say.
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'Brad Pitt' virus targets Microsoft
March 31, 2005
Hackers release a worm, called Ahker-F, that promises salacious movie clips of celebrities.
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Another worm hits AIM users
July 14, 2005
New version of Opanki worm targets users of AOL Instant Messenger and attempts to install software that will let an attacker remotely control a victim's PC.
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Cell phone virus tries leaping to PCs
September 22, 2005
A virus discovered Wednesday is among the first designed to spread from smart phones to PCs, says security firm F-Secure.
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Naked pinups revealed as virus
December 10, 2004
Worm disguised as photos of glamour models aims to swamp Chechen separatist Web sites.
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OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systems
June 11, 2007
Malicious software, spreading through OpenOffice documents, "can infect Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems," Symantec says.
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Sober worm makes a comeback
April 19, 2005
Mass-mailing pest is spreading again, harvesting e-mail addresses for spammers, security companies have warned.
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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.
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Zafi worm proves a holiday pest
December 16, 2004
The worm, which travels as an e-Christmas card, is clogging e-mail bandwidth and cropping up in the majority of virus reports.
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New IM worm chats with intended victims
December 7, 2005
Worm that hits IM users might be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload.
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Worm ID scheme gets under way
October 5, 2005
Common Malware Enumeration scheme aims to clear up confusion by giving each worm, virus or other pest its own unique identifier.
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Worm plays games with victims
January 13, 2005
Cellery program lets victims play Tetris while it tries to infects other computers.
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Net threats hit servers, phones
June 16, 2004
Akamai confirms an attack on its network that took down Google, Yahoo and others. Also: Smart phones draw their first worm.
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Hackers try to crack Windows PowerShell
August 1, 2006
Code targets command line interface shell and scripting language product being developed by Microsoft.
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Kama Sutra worm seduces PC users
January 23, 2006
Promise of explicit images gets people to click on a malicious attachment, sending a new worm to the top of the worldwide virus charts.
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This week in worms
December 9, 2005
The wonderful world of worms has some new twists, but are most of us concerned? Apparently not.
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