There's a 50 percent chance your unprotected Windows PC will be compromised within 12 minutes of going online, says security vendor Sophos.
Computer security experts fear a new worm -- Bagle-A -- which began spreading rapidly across Australian e-mail networks over the last five hours could be a rehearsal for a more concerted attack in coming weeks.
Apple OS X users can catch the first real virus for Apple's OS X platform as easily as Windows users can catch the Bagle virus, according to anti-virus firm Sophos.
A hacking competition will attempt to prove that signature-based antivirus is dead but security vendors say, apart from signatures, antivirus is alive and well.
Variants of the Netsky worm account for almost half of all malware infections in Australia, according to Trend Micro's January 2005 Virus Roundup.
The creators of the Bofra worm, which exploits a recently discovered iFrame vulnerability in Internet Explorer, may have timed the release of their worm to throw Microsoft's monthly patch cycle into disarray, say security experts.
It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as SMBs are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted provider.
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