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InternetNews April 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day.
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 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.
InternetNews April 1, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's Real Lesson: It Was All Your Fault Doomsday didn't come, but the risk remains because users don't know any better.
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 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 April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker Evolves With New Variant Last week's inscrutable threat is at it again.
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 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...
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.
Science News August 25, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Squashing Worms A mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research has mathematically analyzed the question of which computers to patch first when a mutating worm is spreading through the Internet.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Alex Goldman	F-Secure: Adobe Still Unpatched as Attacks Rise In its quarterly threat update, security company F-Secure warned that many known vulnerabilities remain unpatched, and flaws in popular Adobe software are at the top of that list.
InternetNews August 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Zotob Targets Windows Update Laggards A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play code can wreak havoc on unpatched PCs.
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MS to Help Zap Worms Automatically Microsoft is working on a plan to distribute worm removal tools within automatic updates by the end of this year.
PC World July 26, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Sircam Worm: Crawling Fast but Easily Crushed Curiosity could kill your computer, but quick deletion will spare your files and your correspondents...
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.
PC World March 22, 2002 Sam Costello	File-Deleting Bill Clinton Virus Reported Also called MyLife, virus promises humor but may deliver trouble to the unsuspecting...
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 September 19, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Nimda Worm Continues Attack Security firms identify some damage in the wake of worm traveling the world by e-mail...
PC World September 18, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Multi-Fanged Worm Starts Global Attack New mass-mailing worm starts sophisticated attack on PCs and servers worldwide...
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Mafiaboy: Conficker Was a Ruse This convicted hacker argues that Conficker demonstrates that the Internet is still broken - 10 years after he first brought it to its knees.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Worm Still Active; Removal Tool Released Tardy home users with unpatched systems are the main culprits.
InternetNews December 21, 2004 Tim Gray	Holiday Worm Putting Grinch in Season Santy.A might sound like some kind of holiday cheer but as thousands of Web site operators are quickly finding out, the nasty little worm is only spreading fear.
PC World September 4, 2001 Kim Zetter	Did FBI Ignore Code Red Warning? Fast-spreading malicious worm may have had a less successful predecessor...
InternetNews November 3, 2009	'Scareware' and Worms Top Corporate Threat List Despite headway, IT still has their security work cut out for them.
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?
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer	What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses
PC World August 2, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Double Trouble: Code Red and Sircam Plagues Continue Computer users face high-profile threats from multiple sources...
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Your MacBook Is Not As Secure As You Thought Researchers have created the first firmware worm that targets Mac computers, in a move that gives corporate security teams a sharp new headache and pokes holes in one of Apple's top selling points.
PC World May 9, 2002 Brian Sullivan	'Cute' Trojan Horse Spreading by E-Mail Worm has been rated low risk, but could damage firewall and security programs on infected PCs...
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	'MyDoom' Variant Blocking Ad Servers Virus could result in under-delivery of online campaigns.
InternetNews May 4, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Federal Cybersecurity a Tough Balance to Strike House panel seeks answers, advice from cybersecurity experts as government mulls major reorganization.
InternetNews July 21, 2005 Tim Gray	Worm Strikes The Wrong Chord It invades AOL's Instant Messenger under cover of Apple's iTunes.
PC World September 24, 2001 Sam Costello	Worm Takes Advantage of Terrorist Attacks 'Vote' worm preys on user's feelings about recent events to delete files from your hard drive...
PC World October 31, 2001 Sam Costello	Nimda Variant Spreads Across Net Virus author claims ownership rights and asserts name: 'CV'...
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Alex Goldman	Microsoft: Majority of File Exploits Avoidable Microsoft's latest security report includes a new category of data with astonishing implications.
InternetNews November 23, 2009	Second iPhone Worm Targets Personal Data The second incident of espionage on jailbroken iPhones is much nastier than its prank-like predecessor.
InternetNews September 27, 2010	Stuxnet Worm Infests Iranian Nuclear Plant The aggressive and decidedly crafty Stuxnet worm has struck Iran's first nuclear power facility, government officials said Monday.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Worm Has a Yen For Yahoo Mail Worm wrigglers have apparently targeted Yahoo's popular Webmail with a new virus. But so far, it's a bust.
PC World January 27, 2003 Williams et al.	Spread of Slammer Worm Slows Investigators are searching for the source of the worm that caused major disruptions to Internet service over the weekend.
InternetNews January 26, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Worm Adds Insult to Injury Internet users infected with a virus may not feel particularly brilliant, but a new worm reported by PandaLabs will actually tell them they're not. Cisum.A sends an MP3 that tells infected users they're idiots.
PC World September 11, 2002 Paul Roberts	September 11 Worm Spreading by E-Mail Worm contains bugs that keep it from spreading, lowering its threat level, experts say.
InternetNews April 28, 2010	Microsoft Warns Infected PCs on the Rise Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report found that the number of infected PCs rose by 1.7 million in the second half of 2009, but improved monitoring is helping flag and clean the corrupted systems.
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.