Neowin News Feed for: Variant

COVID-19 causes further delay for Googlers' return to work

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 04:08:02 +0000

Google has said it will delay the return to work for employees in the United States following the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. It has originally wanted employees back on January 10. Read more...

Samsung might launch Galaxy Note9 with 8GB of RAM and 512GB internal storage

Usama Jawad — Mon, 28 May 2018 14:16:02 +0000

According to rumors, Samsung might be looking to launch its upcoming Galaxy Note9 with a whopping 8GB of RAM and 512GB internal storage. However, there's no word if this variant will come to the U.S. Read more...

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...

Bagle Variant Exacts a 'Price' with Infected Zip Files

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:27:43 +0000

Another variant of the ubiquitous Bagle worm is now making its way across the Internet, flooding in-boxes with infected Zip files. The newest member of the Bagle family, named Bagle.AQ, arrives via an e-mail message... Read more...

New MyDoom Variant Uses Yahoo People Search

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 20:18:14 +0000

Another new version of MyDoom is worming its way through the Internet, and this variant—like the last one—uses Yahoo as part of its infection routine. MyDoom.P is similar to most of the other MyDoom variants... Read more...

MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:10:14 +0000

A new version of the MyDoom worm has appeared (MyDoom.m/MyDoom.o). This worm has quickly flooded mailboxes, and has slowed down several search engines. Such as Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, and even Google. McAfee... Read more...

New Bagle Worm Variant Can Run Without Launching Attachment

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:12:11 +0000

A series of new variants of the prolific Bagle worm has raised alarms in the security community through an innovative infection mechanism: The e-mail message in which the variants arrive may have no file attachment,... Read more...

Latest Mydoom variant deletes files

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:25:09 +0000

The latest variant of the Mydoom virus, discovered Friday, is still spreading and actively deleting files from victims' computers, security researchers warned Wednesday. The variant, dubbed Mydoom.F, not only tries to perform a distributed denial-of-service... Read more...