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  • One virus writer 'responsible for 70 percent of infections'

    Sven Jaschan, self-confessed author of the Netsky and Sasser viruses, is responsible for 70 percent of virus infections in 2004, according to a six-month malware round-up published by antivirus firm Sophos on Wednesday.

  • NetSky variant a greater threat than thought

    Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.

  • Second NetSky worm on the loose

    The second version of a two-day-old virus, NetSky, has started spreading more successfully than its parent, antivirus researchers said on Wednesday.

  • Anti-Chechen virus mocks MyDoom author

    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.

  • Worm authors talk trash

    Security researchers have discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle are exchanging insults with the author of NetSky, using text hidden inside their virus code.

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  • NetSky variant a greater threat than thought

    Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.

  • Four new Bagles emerge

    The Bagle computer virus has almost finished off the alphabet. Virus writers' penchant for modifying the source code for the program has resulted in four new variants--Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T--in the past two days, antivirus firms said on Thursday.

  • Microsoft: Separate trail led to second virus writer

    Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing a program widely used to surreptitiously control computers on the Internet.

  • Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

    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.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

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