Category: Virus & AntiVirus
Worm Entices Windows Users with Pics of a “Dead” Saddam Hussein
Security company Sophos is reporting that the new spam-engine worm, Bobax.H, is enticing Windows users to open (and thus unleash) it by offering what it alleges to be pictures of a dead Saddam Hussein, supposedly killed during an escape attempt. Targetting computers running Windows, Bobax.H is one of those breeds…
Breaking News: Virus Masquerades as CNN Headlines
Anti-virus firm Sophos has reported that a new virus, Crowt-A, is actually ripping off headlines from CNN, and using them as both the subject line of the spam containing the virus, as well as the file name for the virus payload itself. Not only that, but the virus constantly changes…
New Worm Targets Windows and MSN Messengers
A newly discovered Internet work, dubbed “Bropia.A”, is targetting Windows and MSN Messenger messaging clients. The worm does a host of nasty things, including sending a copy of itself to all of the messaging contacts found on the victim’s computer, installing a Trojan horse program which creates a back door…
Cellery Diet Gives Windows Computers Worms
Security and anti-virus company Sophos is reporting that there is a new worm out this week which targets Windows users (don’t they all?) Dubbed “Cellery”, due to the text which appears on its splash screen, the worm offers its victims genuine entertainment in the form of an actual, playable game…
Naked People Always Spread the Worst Viruses
Tempting though it may be, if you get an email in your inbox which promises a photo of naked people spelling out “Happy New Year” with their bodies, don’t open it. Not, mind you, that the picture isn’t there – it is ( although one is given to wonder given…
Windows Help Vulnerability Target of Newly Released Trojan
It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves – to access to your computer system. As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along with instructions on how to exploit it,…
Trend Micro Offers Free Virus and Spam Checker for Cell Phones
Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones. With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated “Smart Phones”, many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for virus writers. And of course SMS…
Information Security Magazine Determines Top 39 Security Products
Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating products in a baker’s dozen of categories, and with a first, second, and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this is one extensive and thorough cross-product comparison! Aunty particularly…
New MyDoom Worm Has No File, Just a URL, Exploits I.E. Hole
The newest version of MyDoom does not even have a file attached to it, making it look even less suspect, and less worm- or virus-like. Instead, it exploits one of the more recently discovered holes in Internet Explorer, through which clicking on a URL can cause a file to be…
New Sasser Virus Worm Attacks Windows Computers
The newest of the sinsister worm types of viruses, Sasser, has attacked Windows-based computers around the world. Even more insidious than its earlier siblings, Sasser scans the Internet for computers with the Microsoft security flaw which allows it to do its dirty work, and then Sasser installs a copy of…