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PC Magazine September 2, 2003 Dennis Fisher	Sobig is Back Yet another variant of the persistent and malleable Sobig worm is on the loose.
PC World November 27, 2002 Paul Roberts	New E-Mail Worm Causing Severe Damage Winevar could delete all the files on a computer's hard drive, while also mocking the user.
InternetNews March 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Countdown: Experts Stress Caution Malware code has infected millions of PCs and will activate on April 1. What do security insiders say users need to know?
InternetNews January 20, 2011	New Worm Takes Twitter Users For a Ride Twitter fans have a new malware campaign to worry about this week after security researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified a new scareware come-on.
InternetNews May 4, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Cyber Threats to Health IT, Smart Grid All Too Real Medical devices were infected with the insidious Conficker worm, according to security experts.
InternetNews April 6, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Say Hello to Conficker's Cousin, Neeris Conficker isn't the only worm out there exploiting a vulnerability that often remains unpatched.
PC World December 13, 2001 Sam Costello	Antivirus Vendors Warn of Gokar Worm Fix available for annoying but harmless worm traveling by IRC, Web, and e-mail...
PC Magazine October 14, 2003	The Lookout: Blaster and SoBig Move In The Blaster worm continued to tear through the Internet in August, followed almost immediately by an improved version of the SoBig worm, as security experts struggled to find and fix infected systems.
PC World October 31, 2001 Sam Costello	Nimda Variant Spreads Across Net Virus author claims ownership rights and asserts name: 'CV'...
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Michael Hall	Chatty Worm-Bot Coaxes Malware Download A new worm making the rounds on AIM simulates a real person to coax users into accepting its payload.
Reason November 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Spamming Voters Political spam has steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spam is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only "commercial" messages.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker Evolves With New Variant Last week's inscrutable threat is at it again.
InternetNews February 4, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, January 2004 E-mail inboxes groaned under the 60 percent spam volume, along with the most financially destructive worm the Internet has known.
InternetNews January 6, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, December 2003 High growth rates and record-breakers are usually celebrated, but not when it comes to spam and viruses. The spam volume rose from 42 percent of e-mail to 58 percent during 2003, and the year fell just short of being the worst on record for malware variants.
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker: Over 300,000 Domains Blocked, Millions Infected With mere hours to go before activation, the April Fool's Day worm isn't all hype -- and it's no joke, either.
InternetNews November 15, 2010	Malicious Spam Surges in 3Q: Report Kaspersky Lab report finds the volume of malicious spam soared in the third quarter, keeping security software firms and consumers on high alert.
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
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.
T.H.E. Journal August 2004	Spam Sleuth Enterprise Helping keep e-mail inboxes spam-free is the goal of this Blue Squirre offering, which is an anti-spam server solution that resides on an e-mail server or as a separate server to screen out spam before it reaches the internal mail server.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Ever-Morphing Bagle Virus Going Strong A new variant of the Bagle downloader virus is spreading havoc again on unsuspecting users' machines, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
PC World November 26, 2001 Sam Costello	Antivirus Vendors Warn of Badtrans Worm Patch available for Outlook flaw that allows worm to propagate...
InternetNews September 30, 2010	'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2005 Seth Jayson	What's German for "Spam?" A lot of unsolicited German political rhetoric highlights Microsoft's continued security problems with a new "Q" variant of the two-year old computer virus.
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?
InternetNews September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
InternetNews April 15, 2010	Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Microsoft Rounds Up Posse to Nab Conficker In a worldwide effort to bring down what experts warn may be the worst malware now facing the Internet, big names from the computer industry, academia and law enforcement are teaming up to go after the Conficker worm.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.
InternetNews July 31, 2009	Researchers: Conficker Still an Active Threat Over 5.5 million infected PC are still out there, but have the authors abandoned it?
InternetNews February 3, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	As Promised, Blackworm Strikes Security experts have been warning for over a week that the worm designated CME-24 and known by various other more colorful names was set to deliver its nefarious payload today.
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Who's Winning the Spam War? AOL says its users are getting less spam. Can this be true? Is this because of its technology, or the effective legal action it takes against spammers?
InternetNews January 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected.
InternetNews November 19, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	New Virus 'Sobers' up The Internet A new worm is wriggling around the Internet. This time it's the latest variant of Sober, which first appeared in October of 2003.
InternetNews March 3, 2010	Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net.
InternetNews May 17, 2005 Tim Gray	The Sober Virus Returns A wave of far-right German, political-party propaganda choked millions of e-mail inboxes around the world over the weekend, delivering racist messages along with a dirty payload.
InternetNews September 19, 2005 Tim Gray	New Worm Uses The Force Security firm PandaLabs says a worm that spoofs Google is winding its way through the Internet via P2P networks.
InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews March 18, 2011	Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer	What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller	Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort.
Popular Mechanics March 31, 2009 Glenn Derene	How to Protect Yourself from Conficker, the April Fools' Day Worm How can an average PC user find out if his computer is infected with Conficker?
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	'MyDoom' Variant Blocking Ad Servers Virus could result in under-delivery of online campaigns.
InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.
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