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• Microsoft to offer bounty on MSBlast, SoBig culprits

  Microsoft will announce on Wednesday in the U.S. that it will offer two US$250,000 bounties for information leading to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus, sources have told CNET News.com.

• New MSBlast variant plugs hole

  A variant of MSBlast spread on Monday, but the new worm has an odd twist: It applies a patch for the vulnerability that it and other MSBlast worms use to infect Windows systems.

• Cleanup dampens Blaster worm

  The MSBlast worm's infection rate has slowed as companies and home users clean up compromised computers, according to antivirus firms.

• 'MSBlast' worm a piecemeal monster

  Call it the Frankenworm.

• Network operators: Worm still squirming

  Earlier reports that network traffic caused by the MSBlast worm dropped 30 percent to 40 percent may not mean that the worm is slowing, a major provider of network services said Friday.

Features and Case Studies (7)

• New MSBlast variant plugs hole

  A variant of MSBlast spread on Monday, but the new worm has an odd twist: It applies a patch for the vulnerability that it and other MSBlast worms use to infect Windows systems.

• Blasting the MSBlast worm

  MSBlast is the latest worm to infect Windows 2000 and XP machines. Follow these steps to detect and eliminate the worm.

• Symantec coughs up latest virus remedy

  The software maker takes the wraps off its upcoming Norton Antivirus 2004, pitching the updated security software as an antidote to complex viruses such as the MSBlast worm.

• Networks must counter triple threat

  Three security threats have taken turns wreaking havoc in the past few weeks. How should MSBlast,Welchia and Sobig be handled?

• Network operators: Worm still squirming

  Earlier reports that network traffic caused by the MSBlast worm dropped 30 percent to 40 percent may not mean that the worm is slowing, a major provider of network services says.

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