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New Sober virus circulating
November 16, 2005
Security analysts find large number of infected e-mails.
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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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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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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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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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Sober storms charts as month's biggest attack
December 1, 2005
At its peak, the latest variant of the worm accounted for one out of every 13 e-mails sent, expert says.
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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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Reheated Bagle smokes out antivirus defenses
October 29, 2004
New version of mass-mailing worm, discovered Friday, tries to disable defenses on destination PCs. CNET Reviews: Bagle.bb prevention and cure
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RIAA to face MyDoom's music?
February 21, 2004
A slow-spreading variant of the MyDoom virus is expected to target the recording industry's Web site with a deluge of data. But the RIAA may not feel the pain.
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Watchdog-attacking Bagle ramps up
March 1, 2005
A new Bagle Trojan horse that hurts security applications is spreading rapidly.
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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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Virus variant targets Google
October 28, 2004
A new variant of the Zafi virus attacks Google, Microsoft, and the Hungarian Prime Minister
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Coder serves up poetry with newest Bagle
April 26, 2004
The latest variant of the Bagle worm sends out a four-line poem about understanding "the wild life," but antivirus specialists say that not many people have seen these stanzas.
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Zafi worm purports to be Christmas greeting
December 14, 2004
As of mid-morning Tuesday, MessageLabs had intercepted over 25,000 copies of the virus.
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MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines
July 26, 2004
New version of worm clogs e-mail systems around world, slows Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to a crawl.
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Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer flaw
November 9, 2004
A second MyDoom offshoot is taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Web browser to spread.
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ISPs: Sobig's the biggest virus so far
August 20, 2003
As e-mail gateways get more bogged down with the virus's progeny, Internet service providers are declaring the program the fastest to date--and the cause of a huge epidemic.
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This week in security
February 4, 2005
There's no business quite like the worm business, apparently.
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