Antivirus companies are warning of a new virus that attacks Web sites run by the Chechen rebels and also mocks the authors of MyDoom and Bagle.
Microsoft issued on Tuesday an update to its threat removal tool and announced plans to forgo this month's installment of its regularly scheduled patch release cycle.
Unpatched computers continue to represent the IT world's biggest security problem, keeping threats that target software vulnerabilities at the top of McAfee's latest industry analysis.
Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.
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.
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.
The threat of infection by mass-mailed viruses is decreasing, according to reports, while tailored attacks are on the increase.
Virus writers are turning to new tricks as the trend of big-hitting worms eases off in favour of malware that can slip in under the radar
Around 3,300 new malicious codes have been detected by security software provider Trend Micro from 1-20 August this year.
The worm accounted for more than half of infections detected by Sophos during May
The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack computers for use in Internet crimes, some security experts say -- but others aren't convinced.
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
The latest mass-mailing virus called Wallon is spreading via HTML e-mail and can destroy the Windows Media Player.
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.
High-speed Internet service providers are increasingly putting their customers in the security hot seat, as they try to fight recent virus attacks that turn computers into spam factories.
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