The w32 .blaster worm has spread rapidly through the Internet. This ZDNet Australia analysis contains detection strategies, as well as some background information and clean up instructions.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with the Net's top virus-tracking facility to create an organisation to fight cyberbugs.
Call it the Frankenworm.
The Australian Federal Police today welcomed Microsoft's virus-writer bounty initiative, but warned it is not a 'silver bullet' in the war against the authors and distributors of viruses.
Federal law enforcement officials confirmed that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month.
MSBlast is the latest worm to infect Windows 2000 and XP machines. Follow these steps to detect and eliminate the worm.
The software giant eliminates the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating MSBlast worm was set to attack.
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.
Teenager sentenced to 18 months for writing a MSBlast worm got his just deserts, according to a Web poll. What's your take?
Another virus, another epidemic. What will it take for the public to patch?
The MSBlast worm that wreaked havoc last week signals a sea change in the virus world. E-mail viruses are on their way out and so are antivirus solutions as we know them today.
Norton AntiVirus 2004 now includes tools to combat nonvirus threats such as adware and spyware.
Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week.
Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.
Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.
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