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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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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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Bawdy holiday worm preys on prurience
January 11, 2005
Sophos identifies a new attack that lures victims with a photo of naked people.
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Worm baits hook with hints of pope plot
June 28, 2005
New pest, which poses as a breaking news alert about the death of John Paul II among other guises, can disable security software.
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Sober worm hits new heights
May 9, 2005
The variant now accounts for more than 5 percent of all e-mail, surprising experts with its continued growth.
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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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Baba worm pretends to purge porn
January 20, 2005
The new Baba offshoot claims to clean porn off PCs, but it's just a "dirty trick," Sophos says.
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Worm uses funny face to distract from danger
February 3, 2005
Will a picture of an old man making a silly face keep you from noticing a Trojan being installed on your PC? Someone is hoping it will.
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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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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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Worm poses as pirated 'Grand Theft Auto'
July 29, 2005
Popular title is one of 400 games donned as disguise by Hagard worm on peer-to-peer networks. It also tries to spread by IM.
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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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Worm tries to entice with 'lov ya' message
February 22, 2005
Borrowing a page from the "I love you" bug's book, Assiral tries to snow recipients with flattering words.
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Sober worm makes a comeback
May 6, 2005
Mass-mailing pest is spreading again, harvesting e-mail addresses for spammers, security companies have warned.
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Saddam Hussein 'death' photos used as worm bait
February 3, 2005
Mass-mailing worm claims to offer photos that show Saddam Hussein killed after trying to escape from custody.
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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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Virus alert: Spies prize Webcams' eyes
August 23, 2004
Rbot worm doesn't just tap your hard drive--it uses your camera to watch you.
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Survey: Microsoft bears some blame for worms
August 18, 2005
Virus writers are most at fault for the Zotob outbreak, corporate users tend to say, but many still point a finger at the software maker.
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Mytob worm picks up phishing trick
June 9, 2005
New variants of the Mytob worm are using a phishing-style e-mail to fool people into downloading malicious code.
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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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