E-mail virus turns PCs into spam machines
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E-Mail Virus Turns PCs into Spam
Machines
E-Mail Virus Turns PCs into Spam
Machines
10/31/2003 01:56 PMReuters Oct 31 2003 12:41PM ET
E-mail virus surfaces turning PCs into
spam machines
E-mail virus surfaces turning PCs into
spam machines
10/31/2003 04:09 PMBoston Globe Oct 31 2003 2:54PM ET
E-Mail Virus Surfaces Turning PCs Into
Spam Machines
E-Mail Virus Surfaces Turning PCs Into
Spam Machines
11/01/2003 05:19 AMBoston Globe Nov 1 2003 4:21AM ET
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
Bagle Virus Riding on the Coattails of
Spam; Deceiving Spam and Virus Filters
08/12/2004 02:51 AMSpam Inspector Software Developers Working to Stay Ahead of Bagle to
Keep Users Protected [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
New virus snarls machines worldwide
New virus snarls machines worldwide
05/04/2004 01:38 PMChicago Sun-Times May 4 2004 4:39PM GMT
New computer virus snarls hundreds of
thousands of machines worldwide
New computer virus snarls hundreds of
thousands of machines worldwide
05/04/2004 01:07 AMChina Post May 4 2004 5:58AM GMT
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus
12/06/2003 09:45 AMCanadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET
Liquid Machines to acquire e-mail
company
Liquid Machines to acquire e-mail
company
09/20/2004 07:09 AMIn a sign of continued consolidation among security firms, Lexington,
Massachusetts-based Liquid Machines Inc. on Monday plans to announce
the acquisition of San Francisco-based Omniva Inc.
Government Machines Turned Into Spam
Zombies
Government Machines Turned Into Spam
Zombies
08/31/2004 10:06 AMHackers hijack federal computers: Not even the
federal government is immune. This must be the zombie controllers
Holy Grail, 'cause I imagine the feds have some decidedly fast
machines lying around.
Hundreds of powerful computers at the Defense Department
and U.S. Senate were hijacked by hackers who used them to send spam
e-mail, federal authorities say.
More on zombie networks here and here.
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Hoover UK turns to Computer Associates
for virus clean-up
Hoover UK turns to Computer Associates
for virus clean-up
06/11/2004 11:35 AMSecurity Park Jun 11 2004 3:37PM GMT
Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning
Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning
09/13/2004 09:50 PMSpam turns ten today
Spam turns ten today
03/06/2004 01:58 AMMany, many unhappy returns
Alliance turns up heat on spam
Alliance turns up heat on spam
06/22/2004 03:30 PMThe Anti-Spam Technical Alliance, which includes AOL and other major
ISPs, releases a set of best practices. Among their recommendations:
Kill the "zombies."
War on spam turns to open proxies
War on spam turns to open proxies
01/02/2004 01:14 PMZDNet UK Jan 2 2004 12:23PM ET
Porno bl0g spam turns nasty
Porno bl0g spam turns nasty
08/04/2004 08:22 AMSmut attack via compromised military proxies
New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam
New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam
09/03/2002 11:37 AMIDGNet New Zealand Sep 3 2002 9:05AM ET
New Virus Dresses Up as E-Mail
New Virus Dresses Up as E-Mail
11/01/2003 06:22 AMAnother seemingly innocuous e-mail is a virus in disguise. The virus
threatens to turn any recipient's PC into a spam server ... or a frog.
Bwahh haa haa haahhh!
Clever e-mail virus
Clever e-mail virus
03/06/2004 02:08 AMI received this e-mail today, with an attached file called
"Readme.pif". Dear user, the management of Bergersen.net mailing
system wants to let you know that,...
E-mail virus fools few
E-mail virus fools few
06/06/2005 12:07 AMUsatoday.com - Sat Jun 4, 08:18 am GMT
New virus disguised as PayPal e-mail
New virus disguised as PayPal e-mail
11/14/2003 04:00 PMA computer virus that camouflages itself as a message from PayPal has
started spreading among home users, antivirus companies say.
New virus disguised as Paypal e-mail
New virus disguised as Paypal e-mail
11/14/2003 04:08 PMCNET Nov 14 2003 3:17PM ET
E-mail virus takes on new guise
E-mail virus takes on new guise
01/30/2004 01:04 AMA new strain of the Mydoom worm could spread more widely than its
predecessor warn experts.
Virus poses as Christmas e-mail
Virus poses as Christmas e-mail
12/19/2004 02:53 PMA computer virus posing as an electronic Christmas card is spreading
across the net.
E-mail virus scourges Europe
E-mail virus scourges Europe
11/01/2003 03:02 AMUSA Today Nov 1 2003 2:31AM ET
Virus-to-E-mail Ratio Grows Worse
Virus-to-E-mail Ratio Grows Worse
12/13/2002 01:10 PMThe e-mail security firm finds one virus in every 212 e-mails in 2002
(one virus every 3 seconds), a dramatic increase of the one virus per
380 emails last year.
E-mail users caught in virus feud
E-mail users caught in virus feud
03/06/2004 02:04 AMRival virus writing groups are trading insults via novel versions of
their malicious creations.
Debunking the E-Mail Virus Sending Scam
Debunking the E-Mail Virus Sending Scam
04/15/2004 02:31 AMSan Jose Mercury News Apr 15 2004 6:38AM GMT
E-Mail Virus Points to Human Flaws
E-Mail Virus Points to Human Flaws
01/28/2004 12:04 AMSan Jose Mercury News Jan 28 2004 4:13AM GMT
Bagle virus exploits e-mail hole
Bagle virus exploits e-mail hole
01/19/2004 10:39 AMUsers are warned to look out for the Bagle virus which has started
spreading rapidly.
Joke e-mail virus tricks users
Joke e-mail virus tricks users
06/06/2005 12:07 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Wed Jun 1, 06:32 pm GMT
Bagle virus peril in empty e-mail
Bagle virus peril in empty e-mail
06/05/2005 10:48 PMFurther variants of the mass-mailing PC virus, Bagle, have spread
quickly across the net, say security firms.
Wired News: New Virus Dresses Up as
E-Mail
Wired News: New Virus Dresses Up as
E-Mail
11/02/2003 03:13 PMFake Bin Laden e-mail hides virus
Fake Bin Laden e-mail hides virus
06/05/2005 10:48 PMComputer users are being warned about fake Bin Laden e-mail that
contains a Windows virus.
Debunking the E-Mail Virus Sending Scam
(AP)
Debunking the E-Mail Virus Sending Scam
(AP)
04/14/2004 02:24 PMAP - Q. Why do I keep getting e-mails telling me I've been sending
e-mail viruses to other people — usually folks I've never even
heard of — although I know my computer isn't infected?
'MyDoom' e-mail virus spreads fast
'MyDoom' e-mail virus spreads fast
01/27/2004 10:23 AMglobetechnology.com Jan 27 2004 2:01PM GMT
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines
06/14/2004 03:33 AMIt appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important
than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled
out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting
machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling
machines. Perhaps that's because
electronic gambling
machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting
machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which
gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than
electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that
the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic
gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for
any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines.
Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to
make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had
convict
ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you
wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting
machines as well.
A visual history of spam (and virus)
email
A visual history of spam (and virus)
email
09/19/2004 09:56 AMA visual history of spam (and virus) email .. graphed the spams and
viruses ..
graph
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Symantec takes bite off virus-ID spam
Symantec takes bite off virus-ID spam
05/17/2004 11:44 AMZDNet May 17 2004 2:41PM GMT
Porn virus targets spam stoppers
Porn virus targets spam stoppers
12/03/2003 09:50 AMBBC Dec 3 2003 9:18AM ET
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Is Privacy an Urban Myth?
Is Privacy an Urban Myth?
01/27/2004 10:17 AM Howard Dean
seems to be on record as stating that citizens should be required
to use a government-issued ID before they can log on to the Internet.
He also seems to say that PC manufacturers should be required to add
card-readers to all of their PC products to facilitate this. Read for
yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Follow The Virus Cost Urban Myth
Follow The Virus Cost Urban Myth
01/22/2004 03:08 AMWe've all heard stories of some company or organization coming up with
a number for something that gets reported somewhere and becomes quoted
as fact. Remember that internet usage was
doublin
g every 90 to 100 days? Jeremy Wagstaff has written up a nice
summary of how
a made up quote about the cost of virus damage in 2003 is
spreading around the world. It's a little unclear how it all started,
but it appears that someone from Trend Micro came up with the number -
but the company now denies they would or could come up with such a
number. However, Reuters ran an article that quotes someone from
Trend Micro with the number - and despite the supposed retraction from
Trend Micro, the story (and the number) live on in many places. Trend
Micro doesn't seem to mind this publicity - even if it's based on
something they claim they never said. The interesting thing isn't so
much the specifics, but how quickly such a "fact" can spread, and
never be questioned online.
Washington Post
Washington Post
03/20/2003 08:33 AMwar has begun .. full text .. Text .. Full
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"Washington Post "
"Washington Post "
12/16/2003 08:48 PMThe Washington Post gets it
The Washington Post gets it
06/09/2004 06:03 AMMuch of what civil libertarians feared about this administration turns
out to be have been true. As the Washington Post points out in today's
lead editorial, Legalizing Torture: This week, thanks again to an
independent press, we have begun to learn the deeply disturbing truth
about the legal opinions that the Pentagon and the Justice Department
seek to keep secret. According to copies leaked to several newspapers,
they lay out a shocking and immoral set of justifications for torture.
In a paper prepared last year under the direction of the Defense
Department's chief counsel, and first disclosed by the Wall Street
Journal, the president of the United States was declared empowered to
disregard U.S. and international law and order the torture of foreign
prisoners. Moreover, interrogators following the president's orders
were declared immune from punishment. Torture itself was narrowly
redefined, so that techniques that inflict pain and mental suffering
could be deemed legal. All this was done as a prelude to the
designation of 24 interrogation methods for foreign prisoners -- the
same techniques, now in use, that President Bush says are humane but
refuses to disclose. There is no justification, legal or moral, for
the judgments made by Mr. Bush's political appointees at the Justice
and Defense departments. Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of
dictatorships around the world that sanction torture on grounds of
"national security." For decades the U.S. government has waged
diplomatic campaigns against such outlaw governments -- from the
military juntas in Argentina and Chile to the current autocracies in
Islamic countries such as Algeria and Uzbekistan -- that claim torture
is justified when used to combat terrorism. The news that serving U.S.
officials have officially endorsed principles once advanced by Augusto
Pinochet brings shame on American democracy -- even if it is true, as
the administration maintains, that its theories have not been put into
practice. Even on paper, the administration's reasoning will provide a
ready excuse for dictators, especially those allied with the Bush
administration, to go on torturing and killing detainees. Perhaps the
president's lawyers have no interest in the global impact of their
policies -- but they should be concerned about the treatment of
American servicemen and civilians in foreign countries. Before the
Bush administration took office, the Army's interrogation procedures
-- which were unclassified -- established this simple and sensible
test: No technique should be used that, if used...
"The Washington Post "
"The Washington Post "
04/23/2004 08:37 PM"The Washington Post"
"The Washington Post"
04/19/2004 08:24 PM"Washington Post"
"Washington Post"
03/13/2003 10:25 AM"The Washington Post says"
"The Washington Post says"
05/26/2004 07:51 PMFrom the Washington Post
From the Washington Post
07/12/2004 01:03 AMnterview
today
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"The Washington Post has them."
"The Washington Post has them."
05/22/2004 02:19 AMWashington Post Goes RSS
Washington Post Goes RSS
04/23/2004 09:20 AMA dozen (and one) RSS feeds from
Washington Post is
now available.
this Washington Post story
this Washington Post story
07/20/2004 09:29 AMWolftrap
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22172-2004Jul1.html
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"the weekend Washington Post "
"the weekend Washington Post "
06/02/2004 08:54 AMas the Washington Post reports
as the Washington Post reports
06/11/2004 05:02 AMtinyurl.com/2yhru
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the Washington Post tells us
the Washington Post tells us
12/29/2003 08:30 AMcomprehensive retrospective ..
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"THE WASHINGTON POST SCREWS UP AGAIN"
"THE WASHINGTON POST SCREWS UP AGAIN"
04/03/2005 03:07 AM"ABC News and The Washington Post"
"ABC News and The Washington Post"
07/27/2004 09:30 PMthis piece in the Washington Post
this piece in the Washington Post
04/25/2004 12:38 PMHere's the
column
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How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington
Post Have?
How Many RSS Feeds Does the Washington
Post Have?
08/28/2004 11:22 AMA post at MoreThanThis alerted me to the fact that the Washington Post
was doing RSS feed related to current events. The same entry lamented
that the Washington Post doesn't...
The Washington Post does RSS -- badly
The Washington Post does RSS -- badly
04/16/2004 03:44 AMI grew up in Washington, DC, and even after 20 years on the West
Coast, I am used to reading the Washington Post daily, even as it has
slowly transformed itself from the anti-establishment hero of
Watergate in my youth to the neoconservative Republican paper of
today. I have displayed its headlines on my personal news page for
years, and use the headlines to pick which stories and columns to read
online every day. Today the format of the headlines on my site changed
drastically. The good news? The Washington Post finally started
offering official Washington Post RSS feeds. No longer do I have to
rely on Mike Krus' excellent NewsisFree services to get Washington
Post headlines. I can go directly to the horse's mouth. The bad news?
The RSS feeds are crippled. Each one has only a few headlines -- for
example the Top News feed and the Opinions feed each currently have
only 3 headlines. So now I only get some of the stories on the front
page, not all of them. And where are the columns by my regular
columnists, Colbert King, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen (now that
he has regained his senses)? The headlines also have the inane text
(www.washingtonpost.com) at the end of each linked headline, as though
anybody clicking on the linked headline would be taken somewhere else.
It looks like something that would have been put on the web in 1995,
not 2004. This is a really foolish way for them to put content out to
people -- it is one of those cases where halfway is worse than none.
By having only some but not all of the top headlines, they make it
less likely, not more likely, that people outside Washington will rely
on Post for news. By putting the stupid (www.washingtonpost.com) in
every headline, instead of just the first or last one, they make it
less likely that someone will want to display their headlines on their
site. My guess, from years of reading the Post and reading about the
Post, is that it is the result of political infighting inside the Post
between people afraid of giving away their content, and people who see
the value of syndicating headlines as a way of increasing influence
and getting more people to read the Post online. It certainly looks
like a typical Washington political compromise, ugly and satisfying
neither opponents...
an editorial from The Washington Post
this morning
an editorial from The Washington Post
this morning
08/01/2004 04:49 AMRead this report from Sudan .. MORE ON
DARFUR,
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29211-2004Jul30.html
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According to Leslie Walker in the
Washington Post
According to Leslie Walker in the
Washington Post
08/03/2004 07:40 AMMicrosoft Deploys Newsbot To Track Down Headlines .. MSNBC.com's
Newsbot Favors MSNBC.com .. Elizabeth Herrera Smith ..
Quote:
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"One question only, for the Washington
Post: When will Charles Kra..."
"One question only, for the Washington
Post: When will Charles Kra..."
12/07/2003 03:41 AMRobert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
Robert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
12/31/2003 05:00 AMto criticise Bush is a hate-crime .. The Bush
Haters
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Washington Post Buoyed by School
Washington Post Buoyed by School
07/30/2004 03:17 PMThe media company's results shine, especially thanks to its education
unit.
ABC News/Washington Post poll
ABC News/Washington Post poll
12/24/2003 05:27 AMpretty surprising .. cruises back ..
poll
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Washington Post on Creative Commons
Washington Post on Creative Commons
03/17/2005 03:47 AMGreat and particularly well researched article on Creative Commons
in the Washington Post today.
MSN Sells Slate to Washington Post
MSN Sells Slate to Washington Post
12/22/2004 01:12 AMThe Washington Post will acquire the online opinion magazine Slate,
officials at the paper announced Tuesday. This confirms industry
speculation for the past year that MSN was attempting to divest itself
from the content business. Slate would be one of three online media
entities owned by the Post.
Washington Post Buys Slate
Washington Post Buys Slate
12/22/2004 01:16 AMThis had been rumored as a "done deal" for a few months already, but
it became official today that
the Washington Post was buying Slate, the online magazine
published for many years by Microsoft, but
put up
for sale earlier this year. Microsoft started Slate as an
experiment with the idea that they would be able to successfully
charge for content -- a plan that failed pretty rapidly. Meanwhile,
the Washington Post says there will be few changes, but they wanted to
do this to beef up their online content. Of course, the Post used to
run an online site called Newsbytes, which they killed off for no good
reason. You also have to wonder if the Post is going to shove Slate
behind an annoying registration wall, like they did with much of their
regular online content.
E-mail virus turns PCs into spam machines
