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New Trojan Disguised as Blaster Worm Fix
Sophos has today updated its anti-virus software to protect against the new Graybird Trojan (Troj/Graybird-A). Sophos’s virus lab has seen an example of the backdoor …
Finjan Software Protects Enterprises and Home Users From New Variants Of Lovsan Worm
– Owners of SurfinShield Corporate and SurfinGuard Pro Products Will Not Require Anti-Virus Signature File Updates – SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ — …
Ubizen Warns Of Second Vulnerability Post-Blaster – With No Patch
Ubizen, Europe’s leading managed security service provider (MSSP), is warning its customers of a second critical vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Windows. This …
Network Associates’ HackerWatch.org Reports Over One Million Systems Infected by the Lovsan Worm
McAfee Security Consumer Experts Recommend Users Employ Both Anti-Virus and Personal Firewall Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Network …
Blaster Only Set to Stun
Once again, it appears that the worm authors had caught system administrators with their trousers down. Despite the availability of a patch since mid-July to fix the …
Statement Regarding GNU FTP Site Hack
To the Free Software Community: Summary * gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised. A replacement machine was rolled out in its place on the morning …
interMute Introduces SpySubtract to Detect and Destroy Spyware and Stop Spread of Blaster Worm to Consumer and Small Business PCs
New Internet Security Software Protects Thousands of Computers Worldwide Braintree, Mass. — August 13, 2003 — interMute, Inc., developer of award winning AdSubtract …
Weekly Virus Report – Blaster.B, Blaster.C, RPCSdbot and RPCSdbot.B Worms
This week’s report looks at five worms, Blaster, Blaster.B, Blaster.C, RPCSdbot and RPCSdbot.B, which all exploit the same vulnerability in order to spread to as many …
Detecting and Understanding Rootkits
Well, well, well. You have installed the latest Linux distribution and stopped all unnecessary services. You also set-up a set of Netfilter rules that would make the Pentagon …
Internet Virus Advisory: Variations of Worm/Lovsan Discovered
Virus writers developing new variations of aggressive Internet worm MEDINA, Ohio, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Central Command, a leading provider of PC anti-virus …
Zix Corporation is Selected by Blue Plans in New York for Secure e-Messaging and Protection Services
Two Blues Are Added to ZixCorp’s Growing Healthcare Client Roster in New York DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 13, 2003–Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(TM)), …
Blaster Worm Impact May Snowball as Number of Reports Increases, Warns Sophos
Sophos’s technical support department is seeing an hour-on-hour increase in the number of calls from users concerned about the prolific Blaster worm, first seen late in …
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