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24 Feb   Virus News

'Bizex' worm attacks ICQ users

First global epidemic of an ICQ worm detected Kaspersky Labs has detected Bizex, a new Internet worm which caused the first global epidemic among users of ICQ, the Internet instant messaging system. At the moment, messages about infection are coming in from almost all corners of the globe. A...

17 Feb   Virus News

Computer Underground Pounds Windows Source Codes

A new breach is revealed in Microsoft Windows: BMP format is no longer safe

17 Feb   Virus News

A new version of the Internet worm Bagle causes a global outbreak

Kaspersky Labs has detected I-Worm.Bagle.b, a new modification of the notorious Internet worm . To date, several hundred users throughout the world have sent notification of messages infected by the worm. A conservative estimate of the number of infected messages in global mail traffic would be...

13 Feb   Virus News

The Windows source code leak

On 12th February, Microsoft Corporation announced that a part of the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 had been leaked and illegally published on the Internet. As a service to computer users, Kaspersky Labs provides information below on...

11 Feb   Virus News

Doomjuice Saga Continues

Doomjuice.b intensifies the attack on Microsoft

10 Feb   Virus News

Author of Mydoom produces a new worm threatening Microsoft

Kaspersky Labs has detected Doomjuice, a potentially dangerous new Internet worm. Doomjuice was first detected on 9th February; it has already infected more than 100,000 computers across the world...

02 Feb   Virus News

Virus Top Twenty for January 2004

Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top Twenty for January 2004. Mydoom unarguably led the virus hit-parade in January. The worm appeared on January 27 and accounted for more than three quarters of all infections...