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27 Jan   Virus News

Helkern Epidemic - events chronology

It is possible to state with certainty that 'Helkern' appeared far before the 25th of January when anti-virus companies first brought it to the attention of the mass media. January 20, 2003 at 19:07 marked the first time data similar to 'Helkern' worm copies were detected by Kaspersky Labs. The...

27 Jan   Virus News

"Helkern" - The Beginning of End As Anti-virus Experts Have Long Warned

Kaspersky Labs analyzes the consequences of the latest epidemic The 'Helkern' epidemic has become huge, not only in the number of infected severs (nearly 80,000), geographic coverage and its rate of spreading, but also in the consequences it has caused regarding the general functioning of...

25 Jan   Virus News

"Helkern" - 376 Bytes That Shook The World

A new "fileless" worm causes a global outbreak

25 Jan   Virus News

Worm.SQL.Helkern (aka SQLSlammer)

This is extremely small (just 376 bytes) Internet worm that affects Microsoft SQL servers. To get into victim machine the worm uses buffer overrun vulnerability (see below). When the worm code gets into vulnerable SQL server it gets control (by using buffer overrun trick), then gets three Win32...

16 Jan   Virus News

Virus Review - 2002

Virus Review - 2002

13 Jan   Virus News

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09 Jan   Virus News

The Virus Top Twenty for December 2002

Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of December. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. position virus percentage by occurrence 1 I-Worm.Klez 24.7% 2 I-Worm.Lentin...

09 Jan   Virus News

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