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Refuting tall-tales and stories about the Mydoom worms
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

The document contain information and reverse engineering bits of the Mydoom worms, refuting claims and rumors about them with facts. It updates http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt. Also, we...

Yes, some anti-virus companies are spammers
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

In an article entitled "Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers" (http://www.attrition.org/security/rant/av-spammers.html) Brian Martin criticizes the anti-virus industry. Given that I have been an...

f-prot and Mydoom ?
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 13 Comments

Hi Guys, since which vdf file does f-prot dedect the mydoom virus. Thanks a lot -- mfg Voodoo

what is this wupdater???
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 2 Comments

My PC seems to be running a program called wupdater. I found it when I hit the ctrl, alt, del keys. It is running in the background. I have already disabled or unchecked the "Automatically check for...

startpage.cg?
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

AVG is giving me the error message, Trojan Horse Startpage.cg, but when I run AVG, nothing happens. I've tried Spybot and TDS-3, neither of which worked. The file is in my system32 folder, I don't...

what is this? (Important information for you. Read it immediately !)
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Hi group Since today around 2pm GMT+1 I'm getting multiple copies of the following e-mail Subject: Important information for you. Read it immediately ! It's very short and basically contains...

Free Removal utility for MyDoom@mm or Novarg
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Free removal utility http://www.quickheal.com

WINDOWS XP PLAYING UNEXPECTED WAV FILES
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Yesterday while browsing the internet I heard a digital alarm clock going off and found it was coming from my computer speakers. It lasted for about 15 seconds and then faded away. I had windows...

home users most at risk as New Internet Virus Spreading Fast
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 8 Comments

New Internet Virus Spreading Fast NEW YORK -- A new Internet virus was spreading fast throughout Asia, Australia and Europe but computer security experts were divided on the seriousness of...

Update or buy new -- McAfee?
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I have less than a month left on my McAfee Virusscan (7.03.6) and Firewall subscription. I note, from their web site, that the annual update for these is $59.xx. Doing a little shopping, I also...

MyDoom Removal Tool---Free!
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

A free MyDoom removal tool is available from Kaspersky Labs at: http://www.kaspersky.com/ R

Please help
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Hi all I have AVG free system and I have been told I have Backdoor Trojan by an on line scan with Symantec does anyone know what I should do Regards Mark --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

E-trust Question
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 3 Comments

I'm considering E-trust. Has E-trust been keeping up with daily dats during this latest round of MyDoom variants? Thanks, Bruce

MyDoom: spoofed mail address valid?
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Be sure to have MyDoom installed and running from 02/01 to 02/12, because we wouldn't want SCO.com to come back online again wouldn't we :P But anyways... has anyone reversed engineerd MyDoom...

Re: information and reverse engineering bits of the Mydoom worm
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Nicolas Brulez posted a reply on alt.comp.security and comp.security.misc: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bv8ebc%24mqp%241%40biggoron.nerim.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain Gadi Evron.

Symantec Security Check
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 4 Comments

I've two XPPro machines here at work, both protected by McAfee Version: 4.5.1 SP1 Virus Definition File: 4.0.4319 Created: 27 January 2004 Scan Engine: 4.2.60 The scanner operates in real time and...

information and reverse engineering bits of the Mydoom worm
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 11 Comments

We've released a digest of a few of the messages that passed through TH-Research about this new worm. In it is information about the worm that is not included in the different vendors web pages, and...

Winkgn.exe
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Is "Winkgn.exe" a virus file. Its in C:/windows/system directory. AMcD

Re: MyDoom, AVG, F-Prot (Virscan)
Posted on January 28th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Tom McCune wrote: perhaps i'm missing something, but why would you expect to see an f-prot window if you're using f-prot for dos? that would sort of be an oxymoron - dos programs don't pop up...

2 viruses found
Posted on January 28th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Using HouseCall I found the foll 2 viruses: WORM MMAIL.1 Cannot access C:_\RESTORE\TEMP\A001526 JS MMAIL.1 Cannot access C:_\RESTORE\TEMP\A001527 House call could not access them. How dangerous...