Viruses, worms, whatever, don’t have to be new to be a pain. Bill Fallon, Vice President of Product Marketing at EasyLink Services Corporation, the company that offers and operates MailWatch (“a leading Spam-blocking, virus-scanning and content-filtering service protecting corporate networks worldwide!”) : “The Klez worm, which debuted back in October 2001, continues to be the… Read More »
Sophos, a British anti-virus company, is getting worried about the new Mimail worm (W32/Mimail-A), a mass-mailing worm which first struck in the United States on Friday 1st August. Sophos says it “has received many reports of Mimail infections and anticipates the worm could be one of the biggest of 2003″. The Mimail worm… Read More »
Sophos reports that a British man has been cleared of storing child pornography on his computer after Trojans — malicious bits of code, a kind of virus — were found on his computer. The man had been arrested after 172 indecent pictures of children were found on his hard drive (the report doesn’t say how).… Read More »
A reader wrote the following about X1, an search and indexing program which I reviewed recently: I read your article, liked what I heard, and installed the product. It is as good as you described. However, I had reason to run PestPatrol, due to some weird behavior against my ZoneAlarm Pro firewall. The run of… Read More »
The folks at Sophos antivirus are drawing attention to something I think is going to pose a real problem for more sincerely motivated companies: Dodgy Viral Marketing or DVM. It’s nothing new, but it’s back, and it works like this: receive an email which invites you to visit a website to view comedy video clips,… Read More »