Neowin News Feed for: Spreads

Google Flu Trends spreads privacy concern

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:05:37 +0000

Google's new Flu Trends tool, which collects and analyzes search queries to predict flu outbreaks around the country, is raising concern with privacy groups. Privacy groups have questioned the lack of transparency with the... Read more...

DRM loathing spreads around the world: next stop, Brazil

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:29:59 +0000

In South America, the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at a Brazilian law school has joined forces with consumer group Idec to mount an anti-DRM campaign of its own. The group doesn't advocate an end... Read more...

Latest Windows Exploit Spreads, ZERT Issues Fix

Steven Parker — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:27:47 +0000

Microsoft said it is working overtime to fix a flaw in Windows that a security company noted on Monday could soon be used by as many as 600 malicious Web sites. Multiple versions of exploit... Read more...

Editorial: Yankee Group Spreads On The FUD

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:07:02 +0000

Monday, technology research firm Yankee Group released a report claiming that "Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux." Fair enough, I'm open minded enough to give the assessment a fair... Read more...

Apple iPod Nano lawsuit spreads

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:40:00 +0000

The class-action lawsuit brought against Apple following the iPod Nano 'scratch scandal' has crossed the Atlantic. Seattle-based lawyers Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro (HBSS) said yesterday they had filed a parallel complaint from UK resident Ben... Read more...

Michael Jackson 'Suicide' virus spreads

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:17:56 +0000

The British anti-virus firm Sophos said that hackers are infecting computers around the world with a Trojan virus by sending e-mails which claim that pop-star Michael Jackson has attempted suicide. The e-mail message links to... Read more...

MyDoom Worm Spreads Via Search Engines

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:32:27 +0000

Internet users are being threatened by yet another variant of the MyDoom mass mailing worm, which is spreading in part by using e-mail addresses found through popular search engines, security experts warn. The new variant... Read more...

Bagel worm spreads around world

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:55:59 +0000

An internet worm that can enable hackers to take control of infected PCs is spreading around the world. The worm, W32/BAGLE@MM, also known as Bagle, harvests addresses from local .wab, .txt, .htm, and .html files.... Read more...

New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:56:23 +0000

Anti-virus experts are watching a new worm that spreads through Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Messenger client. The worm is not harmful to infected machines and has infected only a few PCs at this point, according to... Read more...

UnitedLinux spreads its wings

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:38:09 +0000

The Linux operating system is continuing its spread across industries, with UnitedLinux releasing technology designed for telecommunications carriers. The new Carrier Grade Linux package was developed by software maker SuSE in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard, IBM... Read more...

"Pentagone" virus spreads rapidly

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 23:26:37 +0000

A mass-mailing e-mail worm started to spread quickly Tuesday, prompting antivirus software makers to advise their customers to upgrade their virus definitions. Dubbed Pentagone, Goner or Gone, the Visual Basic Script program spreads... Read more...

Dreamcast game spreads virus

Sat, 01 Dec 2001 01:53:56 +0000

A Japanese-language version of a Sega Dreamcast role-playing game has become infected with a computer virus. The game, Atelier Marie, includes a screensaver which is infected with the highly damaging Kriz virus. Although the Dreamcast... Read more...

New Nimda virus spreads after all

Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:40:04 +0000

Attachment now 'sample.exe;' bad outbreak still not expected A new version the the nasty "Nimda" computer virus has been unleashed, infecting some computers in Europe on Tuesday. Nimda infected millions of computers... Read more...