MessageLabs, the email security company, says it has so far intercepted over one million copies of Sobig.F, a variation of an earlier virus that was doing the rounds some time back, since it was first detected on 18th August, in the first 24 hours. This makes Sobig.F the fastest growing virus ever, surpassing the infamous… Read More »
Further to my column this week about protecting your computer in the Far Eastern Economic Review, (subscription required), here as promised is the full email from Brian Johnson of Centerbeam. It’s an excellent primer. Jeremy, thanks for the invitation to send you something about protecting computers viruses, worms and other exploits. I?I’ve spent some… Read More »
Just when you thought it was safe to disable the antivirus software. MessageLabs reports of a fast spreading mass-mailing virus it’s calling W32/Sobig.F-mm. The initial copies all originated from the United States. Sobig.F appears to be polymorphic in nature and the email from: address is also spoofed and may not indicate the true identity… Read More »
While the corporate and government damage wrought by the Blaster worm does not appear to be as bad as it first looked, ordinary users may be in trouble. (The worm uses other infected computers to try to attack more computers, all of which then try to attack part of the Microsoft website with a message… Read More »
Lots of warnings doing the rounds about a new worm — called, variously, W32/Blaster-A Lovsan, MSBlaster or Poza — which is designed to hijack computers which are then programmed to automatically launch a denial-of-service attack on the website “windowsupdate.com”, from Saturday, August 16 onwards. Ironically, this website, operated by Microsoft, is used to deliver software patches… Read More »