Source: Silicon.com
A new mass-mailing worm is wreaking havoc for German Microsoft users, pretending to be an official message from popular German anti-virus site Trojaner-Info.
Called Yarner the worm deletes all files in a victim's C: drive, before attempting to mail itself to everyone in the victim's Outlook address book.
Source: Vnunet
Antivirus (AV) firms are warning of a "highly dangerous" virus that disguises itself as a newsletter from a popular German AV site. There have been reports of mass infections in Germany caused by the malicious code.
The 'Yarner' virus disguises itself as the AV program YAW, arriving as an attachment to an official looking message purporting to be from AV website Trojaner-info.de. The email contains the subject line: 'Trojaner-Info Newsletter [infected computer's current date]'.
Source: CW360
E-mail viruses can circumvent server-based antivirus protection and attack users of certain Microsoft e-mail clients when part of the malicious code is hidden in the header of an e-mail message, according to a security expert.
Source: SecurityFocus
A relatively benign but effective Internet worm attacked users of Microsoft's MSN Messenger service Wednesday by exploiting a bug in Internet Explorer that was reported last year, but was only recently patched by Microsoft.
Source: Vnunet
With Valentine's Day almost upon us, computer users are being warned about the dangers of recurring socially engineered viruses.
Some of the most successful viruses over the last couple of years have used the promise of love to get users to set off the damaging electronic payload.
Following the furore earlier this week over which operating system, Linux or Windows, suffered more security vulnerabilities throughout 2001, Linux site LWN.net set about comparing the vulnerabilities suffered by different Linux distros in 2001. Needless to say, the results were quite interesting, even prompting the Linux site to warn: "Anybody who is proud of Linux's security should have a good look and weep - it is a very long list."
Source: Silicon.com
Lovestruck computer users are being encouraged to ditch technology this Valentine's day in favour of flowers, in a bid to cut down on viruses transmitted by e-cards.
The message comes from anti virus vendor Sophos, which has warned computer users to be on the lookout for viruses masquerading as e-cards in the run up to Valentine's Day.
Source: Silicon.com
Apple's Swedish headquarters has sent out an infamous email virus to its customers and resellers.
Apple intended to send out a promotional screensaver yesterday via email to several hundred users and re-sellers, but the email file, entitled ScreenSaverSE.new.xls, turned out to contain the X97M.Laroux.gen macro virus.
Source: Ananova
Virus experts are saying BadTrans.B is still the most dangerous computer virus around.
It tops Kaspersky Labs' top 20 virus run-down for January, months after its debut.
The email-propagating virus has several malicious traits, including installing a program that records victims' keystrokes.
Source: Trend Micro
Similar to WORM_MYPARTY.A, this variant copies itself to C:RecycledREGCTRL.EXE in Windows 9x. In Windows NT it copies itself to C:REGCTRL.EXE and drops a file named msstask.exe in %windows%profile%username%Start MenuProgramsStartup
It also drops the following file which is only visible in MS-DOS prompt: C:RECYCLERF--- (This is the actual file) Or C:RECYCLEDF---> (This is the actual file)
