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The latest variant of the Sober worm is aiming for the top virus of the year spot, with a staggering one in 14 e-mails circulated on the Internet containing it as of this morning, antivirus vendor Sophos PLC said. Around 85% of all viruses reported to Sophos are what the company calls Sober-Z, up [...]
THERE IS an epidemic of the Sober worms being found, according to security outfit Kapersky Lab The company has spotted three new versions of the Sober worm which it has labeled Sober.u, Sober.v, and Sober.w. Large numbers of emails infected with the worm have been distributed by spammers and in recent months it has been [...]
Fred Langa of Langa Letter fame has done a supurb job of reviewing the most-used desktop firewalls.
“The desktop firewall landscape is changing fast. It’s not the need for desktop firewalls — that hasn’t changed at all. Desktop firewall software remains one of the three essential components of robust PC security. Start with a good antivirus [...]
Links leading to a worm that eventually implants a nasty rootkit on a user’s computer are popping up on America Online Inc.’s Instant Messenger network, security researchers said. The URL is passed through instant messages on a person’s Buddy List and in AOL chat rooms. Clicking on the link starts a known worm [...]