Monthly Archives: June 2004

Korgo Clarified

By | November 24, 2011

More on Korgo; I wish I could say it was the last. But the good news is that it does not seem to be the all-in-one ‘phishing worm’ F-Secure said it was. F-Secure has clarified the situation over the Internet worm Korgo, which seems to answer some of the questions in my earlier posting. Korgo… Read More »

Korgo Spreads Its Wings

By | November 24, 2011

Seems like the big anti-virus boys are waking up to Korgo, the ‘phishing worm’ that F-Secure was warning about a few days ago. Symantec have just issued an advisory upgrading W32.Korgo.F, a new variant of the worm, from a Level 2 to a Level 3 threat. As Symantec says, W32.Korgo.F is a worm that attempts… Read More »

The Price of Worms

By | November 24, 2011

How damaging are worms? Very, says Sandvine Inc, a Canada based Internet security company. It says that the main damage is on ISPs who lose bandwidth to them, and face daily Denial of Service attacks. “In fact,” Sandvine says in one new report (PDF, registration required), ”Internet worms and the malicious, malformed data traffic they generate… Read More »

The Trojan Spammer: You

By | November 24, 2011

You, my friend, may be the problem. Further to my earlier posting about worms, here’s another piece from Sandvine (actually today, I think: This was the one I was looking for originally. So far it’s not on their website): It looks at how spam trojans — the bits dropped on board a PC by the… Read More »

The Online Storage Revolution?

By | November 24, 2011

An interesting byproduct of the Gmail all-you-can-eat online email is the fact that online storage, a service sold by the likes of Xdrive, is likely to get a lot bigger, at least in terms of how much you can store there. If you can store 1GB of your stuff on Gmail for free (and, according… Read More »