Sobig.C was first seen on Sunday, 1st of June. The very same date that was set to be the end of Sobig.B life. Since then it has been spreading at an increasing pace.
The worm spreads via e-mail attachments and Windows network shares. The e-mails sent by the worm pretend to come from addresses...
A new variant of the Sobig worm (Sobig.C) is spreading in the wild. It arrives in PIF and SCR attachments in emails coming from several faked addresses, such as "bill@microsoft.com". This variant also spreads through network shares.
UPDATE (2003-06-01 10:30 GMT)
The Sobig.C worm...
Holar.H worm was found on 28th of May, 2003. It spreads over e-mail and Kazaa P2P networks. The worm was written in Visual Basic and is compressed with the UPX executable compressor.
Spreading through email
Holar.H searches through '.htm', '.html', '.txt' and '.dbx'files to collect email...
Alliance With Leading Virus Researchers From Network Associates AVERT And Trend Micro TrendLabs Will Share Timely and Relevant Virus Information To Help Protect Microsoft Customers
REDMOND, Wash. -- May 19, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the formation of the Virus Information Alliance...
Palyh is a massmailer e-mailer worm which also spreads through Windows network shares.
During late 18th of May / early 19th of May 2003, F-Secure received several submissions of this virus from USA, UK, Denmark and New Zealand.
The worm itself is Windows PE EXE file, written in Microsoft...
UPDATE (2003-05-13)
Three new Lovgate variants known as Lovgate.I, Lovgate.J and Lovgate.K have been found on May 13th, 2003. These are similar to old Lovgate variants, but in addition, they infect executable files. For more information see the bottom of the description.
The rest...
F-Secure is upgrading the Fizzer worm to Level 1 as this complex e-mail/p2p worm continues to spread rapidly. Currently it's one of the most widespread viruses in the world.
Fizzer is a complex e-mail worm that appeared on the 8th of May, 2003. The worm can spread itself in e-mails and in...
This article concerns the Anti Virus vendors. I will write at my own personal view of this matter. AV Vendors are big companies that over 3 years now have been entered in competition game of which will win the bet of the best Anti Virus and in the last year..firewall product. The current fashion...
Hello people. I did search on 5.5 forum, did not see any posts about Anti virus on Exchange Servers.
Well I would like to ask you if you are using Anti Virus software for your Exchange Servers, which one you are using and if you are happy with that software you are using and why.
Thanks a lot.
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