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Past Virus Alerts
Friday, November 5, 2004 - "Phishers Adopt Scam Tricks From Virus Writers"
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - "New Bagle E-Mail Worm Spreads"
Monday, July 26, 2004 - "McAfee Names Worst Viruses of 2004"
Monday, May 3, 2004 - Sasser Worm
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - "Variant Mydoom.F", Bagle.B virus
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - "Mydoom", "Novarg" or "WORM_MIMAIL.R" virus
"Worm Breaks Speed Record from Discovery to Life"
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Reuters
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability
in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
The vulnerability was discovered and made public by two hackers with aliases "ned" and "SkyLined" on Friday, and only four days later a worm
exploiting the weakness was developed and set loose, several virus-trackers reported.
Microsoft said the worm is a variant of MyDoom and that it was investigating the threat the worm poses.
Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from MyDoom because it spreads via weblinks and not e-mail attachments.
"People will receive an e-mail saying that their PayPal account has been credited or that they are invited to watch a webcam. When they click on the link, just by viewing a site it executes code and infects the computer," said technical consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos Anti-Virus.
Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday, but the company could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm would be part of it.
However, the U.S. software giant said that consumers who had installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP were at a reduced risk.
The weakness in Internet Explorer is known as the IFRAME buffer overflow vulnerability.
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