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Next Stage of Blaster Worm to Threaten Service Availability

Captus Provides TLIDSâ„? Policy Templates to Prevent Breach woodland, Calif., August 15, 2003 – For companies that fell victim to or survived the latest worm …

Worm Attack Succeeds and Fails at the Same Time

Windows 2000 and XP machines that get infected after this moment will try to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against Microsoft’s windowsupdate.com. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Prevention: The Best Weapon Against the Blaster Worm

– A few basic security measures are enough to prevent attacks from this malicious code – Panda Software’s Virus Lab has detected the appearance of another …

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