Despatches from the frontline of the war against PC viruses
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The IT industry&#39;s war against virus writers has seen battles won on both sides this year. Sven Jaschan, the 18-year-old German responsible for spreading 70 per cent of viruses in the first six months of 2004
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New variant offers holiday greetings before infecting your PC with a virus.
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How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computerÂs hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.
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Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities may leave computers open to remote attacks.
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Security experts warn that virus writers could be preparing to create havoc using a bug in the way that Windows handles images.
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Networked multifunction devices share PC vulnerabilities to worms, hackers.
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Super Bowl host sites can infect visitors with malware.
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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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In this age of worms, zombies, and botnets, mobile computers themselves are a kind of Trojan horse. Do you know where that computerâs been? No, you really donât.
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Malware was being deployed as a Trojan Horse that attempts to disable anti-virus programs, modify registry keys, download additional files, and log keystrokes when connecting to banking websites.
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Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software. Some are keyloggers, recording every key stroke that the user enters -- sending valuable bank account information, passwords and credit card numbers to hackers.
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To see the e-mail I get every day from readers about security issues is to develop a deep discomfort with the state of computing today. Keeping a Windows PC safe can demand a high degree of vigilance. -Rob Pegoraro
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Companies are accused of infecting PCs, and then selling spyware-blocking software.
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Computer worms raced around the world, leaving behind tools that spread spam. Scammers sent e-mail to trick bank account holders into revealing passwords. Rogue programs known as "spyware" hijacked Web browsers and crippled computers.
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Experts at a UK anti-virus firm have discovered a job application buried in lines of code for two new computer worm viruses. The message, which could only be read by anti-virus professionals, said: &quot;We searching 4 work in AV (anti-virus) industry.
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For the past few years, viruses have attacked Microsoft&#39;s operating system, Web browser or e-mail programs seemingly on a weekly basis.