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  • Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm

    An e-mail announcing a new Trojan horse scanner is itself an Internet worm that could flood e-mail servers with useless mail.

  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

  • Sober worm hits new heights

    The Sober.P worm is circulating the Internet in greater quantities than ever, according to antivirus company Sophos.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • Sober worm makes a comeback

    Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the Internet, according to security experts on Tuesday afternoon.

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  • German hate-spam spread by Sober virus

    Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads hate messages in German and English, appeared over the weekend. Security firms are warning that they have received hundreds of thousands of e-mails generated by Sober.Q in its first 24 hours.

  • Sober.d prevention and cure

    What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

  • The secure Mac: myth or legend?

    Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?

  • Make or break with Windows XP SP2

    Learn about the plethora of security enhancements that Microsoft has included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, and how these security features could impair the functionality of some applications.

Reviews (4)

  • Trojan horse scanner pitch is a sneaky worm

    An e-mail announcing a new Trojan horse scanner is itself an Internet worm that could flood e-mail servers with useless mail.

  • BitDefender Antivirus 10

    BitDefender Antivirus 10 is a solid antivirus and antispyware solution, offering two-year subscriptions for the price of one elsewhere; however, it could be faster, offer built-in help, and uninstall better.

  • Take a free ride

    Once as free as the air we breathe, most Web-based e-mail accounts now come with all kinds of strings attached. We test four different services to find out if these so-called free e-mailers are worth the hassle.

  • And Then There Was Light

    The appeal of a tiny 1.58 kg notebook is obvious to those who lug around a traditional laptop. But what isn't as well known is that many of the negatives of these machines are fading away.

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