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Virus uses fake Paris Hilton vid and FBI threats

News The new variant of the older Sober virus wraps itself in what appears to be a letter from the FBI saying the agency has found evidence of the computer user visiting illegal Web sites. Several other variants of a different virus, dubbed 'Mytob', are...

23 November 2005, 8:40

Virus pits itself against music pirates

News A hacker has created a virus that targets music lovers by deleting MP3 files on infected computers, according to antivirus company Sophos. Sophos said it believes the author of the virus may be looking to stamp out music piracy.

27 April 2005, 12:58

Virus-infected PC leaks nuclear secrets

News A virus-infected computer from Mitsubishi Electric Plant Engineering has leaked sensitive company secrets related to its nuclear power plant inspections. Officials from the Japanese firm said the leak occurred when the employee used his virus...

Tags: japanese, employee, peer, electric

5 July 2005, 10:33

Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found

News A number of Creative's Zen digital-music players infected with the Wullik.B virus have been shipped to consumers in Japan. Infected Neeons, which have been on sale since May, will not be affected by the virus as the digital-music players do not run...

2 September 2005, 9:35

Mobile phone virus claims first corporate victim

News The first serious outbreak of a mobile-phone virus in a company has been detected, according to security specialist F-Secure. F-Secure security expert Patrick Runald said on Tuesday that an outbreak of the Commwarrior.B virus occured at an unnamed...

1 September 2005, 10:05

Micromuse goes virus hunting

News Virus warning: Don't join MyParty http://www.silicon.com/a50786 Virus fears drive Symantec forward http://www.silicon.com/a50498 Anti-virus vendors failing users, claims CA chief http://www.silicon.com/a50391

28 January 2002, 12:20

Klez: the self-destroying virus

News A variant of the Klez virus was set to go into action over the weekend, erasing a host of files on infected hard drives. The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload on the sixth day of March, May, September and...

6 September 2002, 17:30

Apple iPods hit by Windows virus

News Apple has admitted that a small number of video iPods made after 12 September included the RavMonE virus. Apple vice president Greg Joswiak told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com that the virus was discovered last week and said the company has been...

18 October 2006, 11:24

Clock's ticking on phone virus outbreak, experts say

News A large-scale virus outbreak targeting smart phones is unlikely to break out for another 18 months, security experts have predicted. According to the authors, a fast-spreading phone virus or worm is unlikely to appear before the end of 2007.

22 June 2005, 11:00

Network Associates CEO pans 'reactive' anti-virus software

News The CEO of Network Associates has admitted current anti-virus software leaves something to be desired in protecting users from malicious code. Despite recording record sales in the last year for its McAfee anti-virus software, CEO George Samenuk...

28 January 2002, 16:06

Fantasy football virus set to score

News A new Excel virus is targeting fantasy football league fans, luring them with an offer of worksheets to track the performance of their team. The XF97/Yagnuul-A virus can infect users' .xls spreadsheets once the attachment is opened.

9 May 2006, 10:48

Teenage Sasser virus writer pleads guilty

News Sven Jaschan, the German teenager accused of writing the Sasser virus, appeared in court yesterday, standing trial a year after he was arrested and admitted to writing the damaging worm which caused havoc for many businesses and individuals in...

6 July 2005, 10:02

'MSN Messenger beta' is really virus

News A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday. The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be...

28 December 2005, 13:56

Car virus rumours taken out for a spin

News This test comes after Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs said in January that it had been contacted by someone inquiring about removing a virus from a car's computer. After putting a Toyota Prius to the test, a team of antivirus experts has...

12 May 2005, 12:08

Sophos founder: Macs can get viruses

News The co-founder of antivirus company Sophos said the Mac is not a virus-free platform. They are available and they are moving around -- it is not as though the Mac is in some miraculous way a virus-free environment," he said.

8 June 2007, 11:05