Neowin News Feed for: Epidemic

Microsoft's Premonition: A vision that could end the spread of disease

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:44:12 +0000

Microsoft's Project Premonition is a 5-year-long research endeavor with the stated goal of stopping the spread of disease, by employing modern technologies for early detection and analysis. Read more...

McAfee warns of typo-squatting epidemic

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:44:55 +0000

Security firm McAfee has released a new report warning of the ever-present threat of typo-squatting. The report highlights the number of website squatters registering domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and celebrities in... Read more...

Beware! New Epidemic - "I-Worm.Swen"

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:19:14 +0000

The network worm named, I-Worm.Swen is causing an epidemic. The malicious program spreads using email, the Kazaa file-sharing network and via IRC channels. Infected messages appear to have been sent from various... Read more...

New virus exploits SARS epidemic concerns

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:30:23 +0000

A new computer worm attempts to spread by taking advantage of concerns over the killer flu-like virus, SARS. Known as Coronex-A, the mass-mailer worm forwards itself to all contacts in Outlook address books and attempts... Read more...

Christmas virus epidemic predicted

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:42:18 +0000

Experts have warned users of a possible onslaught of virus-ridden emails over the festive season. As the seasonal rush of advertisements via email is upon us the chief executive of Sybari, an anitvirus firm, has... Read more...

Spam killers emerge amidst epidemic

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:16:37 +0000

Spam has now, according to reports, become an epidemic with the number of unwanted mails up significantly from this time last year. Companies such as McAfee are now working on solutions as the spammers slouch... Read more...