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...Businesses cannot afford to relax their vigilance over the worm, says Rodney Joffe, director of the Conficker Working Group, an industry group set up to combat the worm. Cleaning up and re-installing an organisation... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/15/237727/printers-at-risk-of-conficker-worm.htm
...tracked down by Joshua Davison, managing director of Australian ISP reseller JelTel, who published an interview with the worm's creator. Towns claims he wanted to make the point that people should change default passwords and did not expect... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/09/238469/ikee-worm-infects-iphones.htm
...finding the creators of the damagingDownadup/Conficker virus. Since it was first spread on the internet last autumn, the worm has infected millions of computers worldwide. Redmond is offering the reward as it views Conficker as a criminal attack... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/13/234805/microsoft-puts-bounty-on-worm-creator.htm
...of Alien movies that have graced the big screen, soon their will be a film going by the catchy name Gammima.AG. The worm, which was first detected on earth a year ago, sits on computers and takes login names from users. The virus got... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-downtime-blog/2008/08/space-station-virus-alive-and.html
...also gained some "cool" status for its benign effect: the payload amounted only to making the victim a "friend" of the worm's writer. Jonathan Armstrong, technology law partner at Eversheds, agrees with Munro's pessimism, particularly... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/26/229530/can-web-2.0-cope-with-second-class-security.htm
...Florida. It infected and shut down internet mail systems, which got clogged with infected e-mails propagating from the worm. It first surfaced in March 1999, other variants have been found since. Its creator was caught and locked up in jail... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/2008/09/more-computerrelated-disasters.html
...infected users will inadvertently send the worm to other users in their address books...infected with the w32/Ramex.A virus. The worm uses Skype's public Application...virus products to detect and remove the worm. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/11/226695/skype-warns-of-chat-worm-infecting-users.htm
...misleading application detected as AntiVirus2008, and is propagating on Twitter," Symantec warned. Symantec said the worm hijacks Twitter accounts of the infected users and posts tweets to infect followers. Once an infected user logs on to... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/16/236923/new-koobface-worm-threatens-twitter-users.htm
...February 2007 03:09 Chinese authorities have arrested a group of hackers allegedly connected to the Fujacks worm. The worm, also known as Whboy, made headlines in January this year because it converts icons of infected programs into a picture... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/02/13/221760/chinese-make-worm-arrests.htm
...consultant at Sophos. "Opening the attachment exposes you to infection - and if your computer is hit you will be spreading the worm onto other internet users," said Cluley. The Mal/ZipMal-B and Mal/VB-AD malware is also capable of spreading... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/03/236754/michael-jackson-secret-songs-e-mail-poison-says-sophos.htm

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