Neowin News Feed for: Rounds

Sober worm variant makes the rounds

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:43:54 +0000

A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among consumer PC users. Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header... Read more...

New WINS Exploits Making Rounds

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:10:02 +0000

Almost a month after Microsoft released a fix for a security issue in the WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) name server, malicious exploits continue to haunt tardy network administrators. According to an alert from the... Read more...

"My Party" virus/mass mailer making the rounds

Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:29:47 +0000

Thought I'd pass this along... A new "medium" risk virus/mass mailer is making the rounds, as being reported by most of the major virus systems. W32/Myparty@MM or W32.Myparty@MM arrives in an email... Read more...

Voodoo5 6000 makes the rounds on eBay

Steven Parker — Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:15:07 +0000

Currently bidding at $1000.00 it seems that this guy has one of the 100 cards ever made in this series and he wants to sell it! If you wanna go take a look or bid... Read more...

New virus making the rounds - Gokar

Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:27:08 +0000

The Gokar worm -- full name: "W32.Gokar.A@mm" -- spreads as an attachment to an e-mail. The subject line and text of the message can be any combination of more than two dozen options, according to... Read more...

New worm DDoS tool making the rounds

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:10:00 +0000

SecurityFocus has identified a new hybrid tool that combines distributed denial of service (DDoS) tools, with the automated propagation techniques previously seen only in worms. SecurityFocus ARIS Incident Analysts identified a rapidly... Read more...

New virus on the rounds, Nimba/readme.exe

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:12:50 +0000

While updating my virus thingy on our network, I spotted this recent addition to respective virus databases. A computer worm that spreads to both servers and PCs running Microsoft software flooded the Internet... Read more...