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  • Desktop search tools a virus writers' best friend

    Companies should not deploy a desktop search tool without first considering the security implications because they could end up helping virus writers, say security experts.

  • Virus encyclopaedia infects visitors with malware

    Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.

  • Free virus with Seagate hard drives

    Some Seagate hard drives have reached users already infected with a virus.

  • Criminals' botnet more powerful than BlueGene?

    Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.

  • Google puts up 'Beware of malware' signs

    Google has started warning people when search results could potentially lead them to malicious code.

  • Gmail gets security upgrade

    Google has launched a security-scanning application for Gmail, its 20-month-old e-mail service.

  • Anti gypsy-music virus welcomed by victims

    Romanian security firm BitDefender has revealed that after releasing signatures to protect its customers from a virus that deleted files from their computers containing gypsy music, it was inundated with letters of complaint from customers that wanted the virus to spread.

  • MySpace feels the heat

    All talk of global warming aside, the record-breaking heat wave that knocked out power infrastructures throughout California will probably be best remembered for making MySpace.com look really bad.

  • Bagle virus fools corporate filters with a picture file

    The latest Bagle variant attempts to download malicious executable files that are disguised as photographs in order to fool corporate filtering applications.

  • Smartphone virus hype dismissed

    A company which handles support for major mobile operators has hit back at research published at the end of April by antivirus giant Symantec that suggested users are wising up to a growing threat of mobile phone viruses.

  • Trojan Cryzip extorts decryption fee

    A Trojan making the rounds encrypts victims' files and demands a US$300 payment to have them decrypted and unlocked, according to a report by security firm Lurhq Threat Intelligence Group.

  • Netsky copycat sparks search for source code

    Antivirus companies are trawling the Internet looking for evidence that the author of Netsky has published the worm's source code, after new variants were discovered

  • Virus authors choosing to infect fewer people

    Virus authors are choosing not to create global epidemics -- such as Melissa or Blaster -- because that distracts them from their core business of creating and selling zombie networks, according to anti-virus experts.

  • AIM worm plays nasty new trick

    A worm found spreading via America Online's Instant Messenger is carrying a nastier punch than usual, a security company has warned.

  • Intel inside: Self-healing PCs

    In the future, PCs infected with worms or viruses may try to contain the plague by putting themselves in quarantine.

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