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InternetNews April 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Exploit for Windows SSL Flaw Circulating Unpatched systems are at risk of DoS attacks but security experts warn the threat level could grow considerably.
InternetNews February 12, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MyDoom Ends but Open Ports Attracting Mutants Microsoft releases a virus removal tool, but unpatched drone machines are still a major threat.
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InternetNews February 23, 2005 Jim Wagner	FBI: We're Not Infecting You The culprit, according to e-mail security sites Symantec and F-Secure, could be a new strain of the Sober.K worm, which spoofs the domain addresses of a number of e-mail servers.
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CIO October 15, 2003 Paul Roberts	Virus Attacks What a month. Human frailty, spam and a dangerous Microsoft Windows vulnerability combined to produce four major Internet worm attacks in August. A rundown.
InternetNews December 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	Dasher Worm No Friendly Reindeer Corporations are at the most risk from a recently discovered worm.
InternetNews May 3, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Sasser Worm Reined But Variants Sprout Experts continue to stress the importance of applying Microsoft's MS04-011 patch.
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 June 4, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Look Out For 3-Headed Plexus Worm A patch Microsoft issued in April could fend off the malicious mutant.
PC World November 2004 Dan Verton	Biography of a Worm Can anything stop the next global virus outbreak? We follow the trail of one recent worm to see how the security system works--and whether it can be fixed.
InternetNews December 8, 2005 Jim Wagner	Sober Worm Has Nazi Connection The infamous Sober worm is set to rear its ugly head again in a New Year's activity that has security officials expecting the worst.
PC World February 24, 2003 Tom Krazit	Lovgate.C Worm Crawls Across Web Leading antivirus vendors post inoculations for newest pest.
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.
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Windows 2000 Exploit Code Released Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack. Apply those MS04-019 and MS04-022 security patches as needed.
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.
InternetNews October 5, 2005 Tim Gray	IM Threats Adding Up IMlogic is warning Internet users that another worm, dubbed IM.Treba.AIM, is again exploiting instant messaging technology to infect machines running Windows.
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.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 David Tan	Combating Blended Threats Security experts agree that blended threats will continue to grow in frequency, complexity and severity.
PC World January 28, 2003 Paul Roberts	Was the FBI's Response to Slammer Too Slow? The recent creation of the Department of Homeland Security likely hampered the government's handling of the worm, insiders say.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Riordan, Wespi & Zamboni	How to Hook Worms Because a computer network cannot ward off every last Internet worm, it must sound an alarm the minute one slithers inside.
PC World November 26, 2001 Sam Costello	Antivirus Vendors Warn of Badtrans Worm Patch available for Outlook flaw that allows worm to propagate...
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PC World August 23, 2002 Frank Thorsberg	The World's Worst Viruses Check out our list of nasty computer viruses -- and find out how to save your PC from infection.
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Exploit Looks For Unpatched Windows Servers When both Microsoft and the government say patch your servers, you really shouldn't drag your feet.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Andy Patrizio	New Worm Counts On Lazy Admins In a twist from their usual methods, virus writers have written an exploit to a patch that Microsoft issued this week, hoping to take advantage of IT shops that are slow on the draw.
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InternetNews June 25, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Malware Hacker Attack Linked to Spammers Experts warn that a highly sophisticated malicious hacker attack could turn millions of PCs into spam zombies. Infected IIS web servers are spreading the malicious software to Internet Explorer users.
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.
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Exploits Circulating for JPEG Flaw Just eight days after Microsoft released a fix for a "critical" flaw in the way JPEG files are processed, researchers have discovered proof-of-concept exploit code that is targeting unpatched machines.
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Type Virus Attack Called 'Imminent' Exploit code for 'critical' Windows ASN.1 flaw could lead to major network disruption. Microsoft Patches 'Critical' ASN.1 Flaw
InternetNews August 18, 2005 Tim Gray	Warily Watching Worm Variants Versions of the Zotob worm continue to slam corporate networks while security vendors and Microsoft play defense.
InternetNews December 29, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	It's That Time: 'Happy New Year' Worms Once again an e-mail worm with the title 'Happy New Year' is making the rounds.
InternetNews May 20, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Older Microsoft Web Servers Pose Zero Day Risk The company says that only IIS 5 and 6 Internet Information Servers are vulnerable.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Worm Still Active; Removal Tool Released Tardy home users with unpatched systems are the main culprits.
InternetNews January 21, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	The Worm in CNN's Headlines A recent virus threat masquerades as a legitimate headline pulled right from the news Web site.
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 November 9, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	New MyDoom Variant Aims at IE Hole New variant of the MyDoom virus takes advantage of Iframe vulnerability in IE. Windows XP SP2 users are not at risk.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Sharon Gaudin	2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts.
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Tim Gray	Windows Exploit Code Online The exploit code can lead to a remote system compromise, where an attacker can take control of an affected computer. A patch for this code is available online.
InternetNews June 28, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Malware Attack Thwarted but Danger Lurks Critical IE vulnerability remains unpatched.