All the stories tagged with virus
Samsung Wave S8500 Ships With Virus In Germany
06/02/2010, It seems that reports of electronic devices being shipped with viruses are increasingly common, and now word is going around that some of the Samsung Wave S8500′s shipped in Germany come bundled with an unpleasant surprise – a Win32/Heur virus [...]
Scientist gets infected with computer virus
05/26/2010, Want to make a name for yourself? Why not take up the discipline of science and come up with something different? This is what Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading did, being the first man worldwide to be [...]
McAfee Offers To Reimburse Folks Affected By The Recent Botched Update
04/26/2010, The folks over at McAfee are probably scrambling to do their best to limit the damage to their image caused by the recent fiasco of a botched update. The mistake took down tens of thousands (possibly millions) of computers around [...]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Virus Makes International Calls
04/16/2010, Owners of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones: if you’ve recently noticed that your phone is making some mysterious international calls, it might be infected by a virus. Some folks have discovered such a virus infecting Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, and apparently [...]
MMS Bomber Virus Affecting Many Phones In China
04/02/2010, A particularly nasty cell phone virus is making rounds in China, and has apparently affected over a million cell phones. This “MMS Bomber” virus currently affects phones that are powered by Symbian S60 3rd Edition, thus affecting many Samsung and [...]
Vodafone Spain Admits That 3000 Smartphones Were Shipped With Virus
03/19/2010, Looks like the recent issue of Vodafone’s HTC Magic shipping with the Conficker and Mariposa viruses might be more widespread than initially reported. Apparently Vodafone Spain has confirmed that some 3,000 users may have been exposed to the Mariposa malware, [...]
Virus detection claims to be 360X faster on GPUs than on Core 2 Duo
12/14/2009, Kapersky Lap in Russia says that its security software is 360X faster when using an NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPU than when using a Core 2 Duo processor from Intel. Here’s how Nvidia describes it: When the Kaspersky anti-virus software on [...]
Malicious iPhone Virus In Netherlands
11/24/2009, We’ve seen Jailbroken iPhones that left SSH on with the default passwords get Rickrolled, and also “blackmailed”, though we’re fairly sure nobody really paid any money. Now it seems that a new virus, exploiting the same vulnerability, has surfaced in [...]
HackAlert protects web businesses
09/22/2009, HackAlert is a SaaS application that aims to prevent legitimate website from being hacked and used as a Malware source via code injection. Code Injection is a hacking technique that consists in exploiting a weakness in the processing by introducing [...]
CA eTrust update 33.3.7051 can disable Windows systems
08/12/2009, CA has had some issues with the 33.3.7051 update of its eTrust anti-virus software: the updated started to flag critical system files and some of its own files as being infected (they were not) and sending them to quarantine. That [...]
O2 Toshiba TG01 Infected?
07/15/2009, O2 Germany is warning customers who bought a Toshiba TG01 that their handset might carry a virus that made its way into the device at the manufacturing level. Customers should call O2’s customer service to see how fix this. The carrier says [...]
