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Commentary: Antivirus firms spread the disease
September 11, 2003
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Symantec Corp.
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Antivirus companies muting false alarms
May 12, 2004
A new Symantec tool is designed to squelch e-mail notifications that wrongly tell people they've sent e-mail containing a virus. Other security companies are likely to follow suit.
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Networks Associates Technology Inc.
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Antivirus firm secures lists after virus leak
March 5, 2004
F-Secure adds more security to its customer mailing lists after a moderator accidentally forwarded a virus to users of the company's antivirus software.
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Bagle keeps on toasting PCs
July 19, 2004
Publicly available source code means the latest variant of the virus won't be the last.
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Microsoft Corp.
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PC
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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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worm
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denial of service
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Symantec Corp.
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e-mail address
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e-mail
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Bagle attack comes in two waves
September 21, 2005
New variants of the veteran pest have been sent out in two waves of spam, an antivirus firm says.
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AOL Active Virus Shield
Reviewed on August 8, 2006
For a free antivirus program, we think it's very good, and Kaspersky, through AOL, becomes the first major antivirus vendor to offer a free version of its highly rated product.
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America Online Inc.
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Grisoft
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malware
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Real-Time
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The Trojan resume: MyDoom authors encode job plea
September 10, 2004
But the antivirus community wrinkles its nose at the notion of a worm as curriculum vitae.
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Bagle latches on to antispam ploy
March 15, 2004
The latest Bagle variants are hiding their passwords in graphic files to try to avoid detection by antivirus software.
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Graham Cluley
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antivirus company
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anti-spam
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graphic
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variant
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detection
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Sophos Plc.
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password
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antivirus software
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e-mail address
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e-mail
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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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Graham Cluley
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worm
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antivirus company
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Sophos Plc.
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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.
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Sophos Plc.
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Lycos Inc.
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AltaVista Co.
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query
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Google Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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'Storm worm' Trojan horse surges on
January 23, 2007
Many home PC users may have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan horse attack that took place over the weekend.
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F-Secure Corp.
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New virus disguised as PayPal e-mail
November 14, 2003
A computer virus that camouflages itself as a message from PayPal has started spreading among home users, antivirus companies say.
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eBay Inc.
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Experts: Zombies ousting viruses
May 25, 2005
Attackers are drafting bot armies of up to 10,000 machines rather than creating global epidemics like Blaster, security experts say.
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Wikipedia used to spread malicious code
November 6, 2006
Entry in German version of online encyclopedia hijacked to direct users to malicious code, says antivirus vendor.
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Site-blocking worm carries phishing risk
April 11, 2005
Worm alters system files to block some antivirus company Web sites--a ploy that could be used in phishing scams, Trend Micro warns.
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Trend Micro Inc.
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bank
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Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft Windows
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Bagle virus makes a return
January 27, 2005
The mass-mailing virus is starting to spread worldwide, antivirus firms have warned.
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Trend Micro Inc.
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David Perry
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Symantec Corp.
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Japan
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Malicious program aims for Pocket PCs
August 5, 2004
The first-ever Trojan horse program to target Microsoft-powered handhelds rolls into town. But experts say it has an Achilles' heel.
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Kaspersky Lab
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antivirus company
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Symantec Corp.
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virus
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Pocket PC
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PDA
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Microsoft Corp.
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Commentary: Spreading the latest virus
January 28, 2004
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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.
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Paris
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attachment
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F-Secure Corp.
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e-mail
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