A newer, better-built version of the Sasser worm has boosted the infectiousness of the original, spreading to more than 10,000 computers over the weekend, antivirus company Symantec said last Monday.
Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.
The Sasser worms continued to wriggle into computers on Tuesday, hitting home users hard while affecting companies to a lesser degree than previous attacks, security experts said.
Virus writers are going beyond "click to infect" programs by merging a trio of techniques to bypass security and compromise computers with malicious code.
A worm is spreading among MSN Messenger users by fooling them into downloading an infectious file from the Internet, antivirus firms said on Thursday.
Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.
Forget ironclad shields against Slammer-style attacks. Companies need to cut back on the heroics and focus on limiting their pain.
The software giant eliminates the Windowsupdate.com address that the self-propagating MSBlast worm was set to attack.
As the MSBlast worm makes it clear that something must be done about insecure PCs, Microsoft has said this may be the time to take more control of the Windows update mechanism.
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