Antivirus companies discovered a fifth version of the Sasser variant this weekend, within hours of German police arresting an 18-year-old man who confessed to being the Sasser worm's author.
The worm accounted for more than half of infections detected by Sophos during May
Around 3,300 new malicious codes have been detected by security software provider Trend Micro from 1-20 August this year.
Who knows what the authors of Netsky and Sasser are thinking. Robert Vamosi offers some speculation based on messages left inside recent viruses by the authors themselves.
The latest mass-mailing virus called Wallon is spreading via HTML e-mail and can destroy the Windows Media Player.
The worm accounted for more than half of infections detected by Sophos during May
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
We recommend installing Windows XP SP2 but only after Microsoft has had a few weeks to work out the kinks.
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