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InternetNews February 3, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	MyDoom Leads Damaging January Attacks Racking up approximately $38.5 million in economic damages around the world, the virulent MyDoom worm easily took the top spot in January's list of worst viruses.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
PC Magazine September 10, 2003 Sebastian Rupley	Could Another SoBig Attack Be Coming This Week? Some virus experts are concerned that September 11 might be the target date for another attack.
InternetNews December 23, 2004 Jim Wagner	Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Study: Virus Attacks Up But Infections Hold Steady Last year more -- and more dangerous -- viruses raced across the Internet than ever, according to a new study. But there was a glimmer of good news.
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Alexandra Robbins	The Virus Wars As the problem continues to escalate, the future direction of the virus wars is something of an unknown, because it depends on so many variables, including the shifting motivations for virus writing.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	NetCleanse, Spam Sleuth Protect From Viruses and Spam Solutions for protection from viruses and spam that promise to eliminate computer vulnerabilities.
Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003	System Alert: You've Got... Worms Was the recent spate of attacks just more of the same -- or are virus writers beginning to infect computers with other gains in mind? Experts at Wharton and elsewhere weigh in on possible motives and defenses against them.
PC World November 16, 2000 Kim Zetter	Freeze! Drop That Download! From toughening laws to making virus writing seem uncool, industry and government are trying everything to stop virus writers...
New Architect May 2002 Sarah Gordon	Distributing Viruses Should virus writers be allowed to post harmful code on the Web?
CFO January 30, 2004 Esther Shein	Spy vs. Spy Companies are spending billions on network security, but staying ahead of hackers may be a pipe dream.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 Judith Rajala	Computer Virus Protection Simply having virus protection software on your institution's computer system doesn't guarantee safety and security. Instead, protection and prevention is a team effort between the users and the anti-virus software. Includes a list of useful websites.
HBS Working Knowledge October 20, 2003 Wendy Guild Swearingen	New Rules for Information Security In a new book from Harvard Business School Press, Digital Defense, Thomas J. Parenty explains how security technologies are changing the rules of business. Plus: Q&A
PC World October 13, 2000 Kim Zetter	How It Works: Viruses They're the "common cold" for computers; we'll show you how they operate and how to protect your PC...
InternetNews March 19, 2004 Ryan Naraine	It is Time for Some 'Friendly' Worms Let's face it folks, the virus writers have the upper hand these days. Is it time for the industry to be bold and imaginative about fighting back?
PC Magazine March 31, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Virus Spitfires Virus writers exchange insults.
PC World November 15, 2000 Kim Zetter	What Makes Johnny (and Jane) Write Viruses? Forget the stereotypes--virus writers range in age and outlook, but many share an undeveloped sense of ethics, researcher finds...
PC Magazine August 3, 2005	The Ten Biggest Problems in Computing and How We'll Solve Them Malicious computer attacks will go on, but you can be confident we'll get better at fighting them.
Unix Insider January 2001 Sandra Henry-Stocker	Understanding viruses What exactly is a virus, how does it work, and how can you protect your system from one? The author explains the difference between viruses and worms, and why keeping up with and preventing them is so difficult...
InternetNews February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
PC World December 2000 Kim Zetter	Computer Viruses: The Next Generation What will be the next virulent outbreak? No one knows, except that it's guaranteed to be more lethal than ever...
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Worms Continue to Wriggle, Wreak Havoc 'Zero-day' exploits and new styles of viruses send security firms scrambling to patch the latest holes in the network.
InternetNews April 13, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Browser-based Attacks 'Surging' Virulent viruses and worms aren't the only things to watch out for. Security analysts say browser-based attacks are escalating in frequency and damage. And now a new study backs up the warnings.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	A Sobering Report on Viruses According to an analysis by Postini of 150 billion e-mail messages sent in 2005, e-mail-borne viruses represented 2.5 percent of all inbound e-mail messages.
PC World July 2, 2002 Andrew Brandt	Klez: The Virus That Won't Die? Brace yourself for another round: A variant of the resilient worm is wriggling alive this week.
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Beyond Viruses The cost to U.S. companies of doing battle with network attacks has fallen significantly.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Cybercrime At A Glance But just how much damage can cybercrime cause? About $67 billion to U.S. companies last year, according to an estimate based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2005 Computer Crime Survey. Here's more statistics.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else.
InternetNews February 3, 2004 Chris Nerney	Virus Writing: Not Fun, Not Funny Whatever your feelings about SCO or Microsoft, MyDoom hurts thousands of other companies, the global economy and the Internet in general.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Sharon Gaudin	Hackers Exploiting Zero Day Windows Flaw The Zero Day exploit of the Windows Metafile bug has racked up six variants as of Thursday afternoon and has left security analysts wondering what's coming next.
InternetNews January 28, 2005	Blaster-B Worm Author Gets 18 Months in Jail The man convicted of authoring the Blaster-B worm has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.
PC Magazine August 19, 2003 Sheryl Canter	Effective Immunity Viruses keep spreading, and PCs keep getting infected. What can you do to stay secure?
The Motley Fool December 28, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Beware the MSN Messenger Bug Attacks on IM programs are on the rise, and although MSN Messenger is not the top instant-messaging software, one research group found that MSN Messenger has been used quite frequently for such IM viruses, as the newest threat shows.
InternetNews January 23, 2006	IronPort's Web Reputation Security Can a 'credit check' for your e-mail eliminate phishing and virus threats?
InternetNews September 22, 2005 David Needle	Beware, Bagle is Back Several anti-virus security sites have issued warnings that a variant of the infamous Bagle worm has shown up on the Internet, spreading via e-mails... Symantec agrees to acquire WholeSecurity...
PC Magazine October 7, 2003 Mark Hachman	Long Arm of The Law The havoc created by widespread viruses in August resulted in serious legal hardball. U.S. law enforcement agents say the arrest of the alleged author of the Blaster worm sends a message to virus writers that the federal government will prosecute similar crimes.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Bagle Virus' Nasty Turn So we have the annoyance of spam, the threat of viruses, and signs of a growing weariness in users -- the email experience is degrading. It's clear the industry needs to continue to fight to clean up inboxes or risk a souring outlook on email. .
InternetNews March 17, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Plan to Fight Back Against Hackers Causes Stir A new security company is running with the idea that it's simply not enough to protect a corporate network anymore. They say it's time to fight back. But analysts worry that attacking back will cause even more trouble.
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Fake Microsoft Service Pack is Xombe Trojan Another day, another virus. Unsuspecting Internet users were greeted Friday with an e-mail message purportedly from [email protected] to update their computers. Problem is, the message isn't from Microsoft and the patch is actually a back door Trojan.
T.H.E. Journal February 2001	Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus 2000 Statistics illustrate how important it is for schools to protect their investment in computers by utilizing anti-virus software such as Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus 2000...
Entrepreneur March 2006 Amanda C. Kooser	Hacker's Paradise Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec security response, talks about what internet security threats are shaping up.
PC World November 14, 2000 Kim Zetter	Three Minutes With Fred Cohen, Virus Trends Tracker Originator of 'virus' term holds forth on benevolent viruses, liability, and avoiding dangerous code while surfing...
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Tim Gray	Authorities Nab Zotob Writers Joint cooperation nails virus writers overseas.
Inc. October 2005 John Fried	How to Avoid Scammers, Spammer and the Rest of the Bad E-guys Before anything else, you need to know who the on-line scammers are and how to keep them out.
InternetNews February 8, 2005 Erin Joyce	Microsoft to Buy Anti-Virus Vendor Sybari More than 10,000 customers already use Sybari's enterprise security product.
eCFO April 2001 John Edwards	Computer Not Feel Good The Digital Immune System, designed by Symantec in partnership with IBM, is intended to snuff out a virus before it spreads...
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Trojan Spreads in Michael Jackson Spotlight British anti-virus firm Sophos says hackers are slamming computers around the world with a Trojan virus by sending e-mails claiming Michael Jackson has tried to kill himself.