Antivirus vendors rarely agree on virus names these days and trying to match up one alias with the next can be difficult if you do not understand the different components ... Read More

It turns out, the numbers of Nyxem worm infectees may be grossly inflated. Antivirus researchers are basing the numbers on a counter on a website that the worm calls into ... Read More

SiteAdvisor is the niftiest new thing I've seen in quite some time. And it's free. If you do a search in Google or Yahoo, SiteAdvisor adds an icon next to ... Read More

Antivirus vendor F-Secure is warning that over 500,000 systems are infected with a variant of the Nyxem worm, first discovered on January 17th. Nyxem, also known as the Blackmal or ... Read More

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first known PC virus discovered in the wild. Dubbed Brain, the virus infected the boot sector of 30Kb floppy disks, changing the ... Read More

NOTE: If you are looking for information on the Nyxem email worm, please click here. Yesterday's newsletter provided the wrong url. USB Antivirus: Portable Protection Korean-based Iocell has announced VaccineDrive, a USB ... Read More

By default, a wireless-ready laptop or PC running Windows XP will connect to "Any available network" and "Automatically connect to non-preferred networks". Convenient? Yes. But very risky. Here's how to ... Read More

Brian Krebs of The Washington Post reports on a "a staggeringly simple but very dangerous wireless security problem" that impacts wireless-capable laptops running Windows XP or 2000 which, as Brian ... Read More

The FBI is warning of a fraudulent email masquerading as a plea for "Several Millions of Dollars" to allegedly pay for medical treatment for Randal McCLoy, the lone survivor of ... Read More

A few years ago, MessageLabs dubbed 2001 the year of the virus. In retrospect, the label is particulary appropriate as 2001 was one of the last years that traditional worms ... Read More

Behind the Windows graphical interface is a database workhorse that stores all the information about the operating system and associated software. In fact, more customization can be done via the ... Read More

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001 has been released, providing a patch for Windows XP, 2003, and 2000 users. A patch for Windows 98/ME users was not provided. According to Microsoft, "Although ... Read More

In an unusual but welcome reversal, Microsoft has announced plans to release a patch for the WMF flaw prior to their scheduled 'Patch Tuesday' release cycle. A security bulletin notification ... Read More

Beginning January 6th and repeating every two weeks thereafter throughout the remainder of 2006, the Sober.X worm (aka Sober.Y) is hard-coded to download additional malware onto infected users' systems. Sober.X ... Read More

The newly discovered and highly critical WMF exploit publicly disclosed on Dec 27, won't be patched early by Microsoft. Instead, vulnerable users will have to wait until the scheduled "second ... Read More

Thanks again to the efforts of Ilfak Guilfanov, there's now an easy way to check whether your PC is vulnerable to the known WMF exploits. But first, a word of ... Read More

The WMF exploit is made possible because of a design flaw. In other words, according to F-Secure, it's not a bug, it's a feature. And F-Secure says this design mistake ... Read More

Irresponsible, public disclosure of exploit code for the WMF Image Handling Flaw has led to new public exploits. Those who disabled shimgvw.dll as per previous instructions will not be protected ... Read More