Neowin News Feed for: Nasty

Microsoft fixes nasty DNS server, Exchange flaws

Tue, 08 May 2007 20:12:23 +0000

Microsoft has released its May set of security patches, fixing critical bugs in Word, Excel, Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Exchange and the CAPICOM cryptography technology used by BizTalk Server. Microsoft rates all seven groups of... Read more...

Germans develop nasty case of IE jitters

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:49:27 +0000

Michael Dickopf, spokesman for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), has told the Berliner Zeitung that internet users should switch from Internet Explorer to Mozilla or Opera. Dickopf says Internet Explorer is hazard-prone,... Read more...

PDA Viruses Could Get Nasty

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:42:31 +0000

Viruses that target handhelds can be even more dangerous than their cousins that attack PCs, spawning self-replicating programs that hide easily, a security researcher told an audience of security professionals at the Black Hat Briefings... Read more...

Mortal Kombat: Deception - nasty new screens

Darren Bolton — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:18:26 +0000

A shiny new look for the beat-'em-up classic that had crowds of kids yelling 'Finish him!' The latest screens of Midway's Mortal Kombat: Deception illustrate that the series' infamous gore factor remains intact... Read more...

Silent Hill 4: The Room - nasty shots of an ugly place

Darren Bolton — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:47:03 +0000

E3 2004: A foreboding name complemented with suitably spooky pics await those who dare enter THE PITCH: It's all gone vene more brown and grainy in the latest survival-horror excursion to unmentionable dimensions... Read more...

Linux cyber-battle turns nasty

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:36:28 +0000

The MyDoom virus has triggered a new wave of attacks on company websites. It is also looks like a new front in a war waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating... Read more...

Kazaa really is nasty

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:32:17 +0000

Its amazing - how selfish a company can be - they cant make money doing a legitimate business, so they resort to scamming of others sucess. "We all heard about spyware, well now... Read more...

'Free porn' worm turns nasty

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:30:50 +0000

A worm discovered earlier this week is hijacking web browsers and internet chat clients with promises of free porn. Although the potential threat posed by the worm is low, antivirus companies have... Read more...

Nasty internet worm targets German Anti-Trojan users

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:11:39 +0000

A destructive new mass-mailing Internet worm has been launched into the wild in the form of a Trojan horse targeting the security-conscious. The worm, which has been named "Yarner" by virus researchers,... Read more...