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  • Bagle has less bite because of patches and education

    Messagelabs said on Tuesday that although it has intercepted more than 2.5 million copies of the most recent Bagle variant, the damage could have been far more severe had the same worm been released two years ago.

  • Four new Bagles emerge

    The Bagle computer virus has almost finished off the alphabet. Virus writers' penchant for modifying the source code for the program has resulted in four new variants--Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T--in the past two days, antivirus firms said on Thursday.

  • Three-stage Bagle variants alarm experts

    The latest variants of the Bagle worm have alarmed antivirus vendors because of the multi-stage process they use to attack PCs.

  • Dating Web sites spread malware not love

    Over the past year the number of online dating sites has increased significantly but security experts at Internet Security Systems (ISS) say many of these sites are being used at this time of year to spread malicious code, not love.

  • Watch out: It's virus season again

    Virus writers seem to be trying every trick they can these days to infect our computers, but we can fight back. How? For starters, says Robert, try updating Windows frequently.

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  • Four new Bagles emerge

    The Bagle computer virus has almost finished off the alphabet. Virus writers' penchant for modifying the source code for the program has resulted in four new variants--Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T--in the past two days, antivirus firms said on Thursday.

  • Watch out: It's virus season again

    Virus writers seem to be trying every trick they can these days to infect our computers, but we can fight back. How? For starters, says Robert, try updating Windows frequently.

  • NetSky variant a greater threat than thought

    Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.

  • Microsoft calm over new twist in Bagle saga

    Microsoft is cautiously optimistic that attempts to spread new variants of the Bagle virus exploiting an older vulnerability in its e-mail products will not be successful.

  • Sasser tops virus infections

    The worm accounted for more than half of infections detected by Sophos during May

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