Zafi virus threat finally begins to subside
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The impact of the W32/Zafi-D worm, which disguised itself as an electronic Christmas card, has reduced from its peak of 1 in every 10 emails earlier this week, to 1 in 30 in the last 24 hours according to reports from Sophos&#39;s global network of monitoring
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Infected computers can be used as &quot;zombies&quot; to send spam or launch attacks on Web sites. Spreading Trojans via chat rooms is not unusual.
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But the overall file size for spam is decreasing, according to the security vendor's latest report.
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THE BAGLE worm is back from the dead with three new variants which are different enough to avoid some AV scanners. McAfee, Symantec and Sophos also reported intercepting many samples of the new worms and advised customers to update antivirus signatures.
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Making use of the current trend to send festive greetings via email, a new virus is making the rounds. A variant of the ZAFI worm, the WORM_Zafi.
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Killing a virus attack before it becomes damaging is something of a holy grail in today&#39;s security environment. That&#39;s because most viruses today are distributed through attachments to e-mail
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The Storm Worm botnet has been shrinking steadily and is about 10 percent of its former size.
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Technique claims to be able to stop Internet worms within milliseconds of an outbreak.
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Two new versions of a computer virus that affects mobile phones were discovered this week with new features that allow them to spread more quickly between vulnerable devices, according to antivirus company F-Secure.
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Program isn't entirely benevolent: it also downloads files to infected PCs.
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Security firms are warning about a Windows virus disguising itself as an electronic Christmas card. The Zafi.D virus translates the Christmas greeting on its subject line into the language of the person receiving infected e-mail.
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Malware arrives in the form of a game, disables antivirus protection.
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The total number of virus attacks are down, but malicious codemeisters are getting faster, more sophisticated, and they&#39;re beginning to target e-commerce concerns and small businesses.
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The Zafi.D worm, which disguises itself as an e-mail holiday greeting, is currently the most frequently detected worldwide virus, software security company Panda Software said this week.
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Whatever happened to mass-mailing viruses? The lazy, hazy days of summer witnessed a continuation of the ongoing shift from large-scale virus outbreaks toward phishing and more targeted attacks, according to a study by net security firm MessageLabs.â¦
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A variant of the Zafi worm, Zafi.d, is doing the rounds disguised as a Christmas message. This worm arrives via email and through peer-to-peer networks bearing the message &quot;Happy Hollydays&quot; and the subject
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The latest variant of the Sober virus was released on Friday and has been spreading over the weekend, but antivirus experts say the situation could have been much worse.