Press Releases
3 August 2001 As previously reported, some US and British organizations spread the word at the beginning of this week about a possible repeat of the "Bady" (Code Red) Internet-worm epidemic. As a result of the announcement being reported throughout the world, the...
31 July 2001 Kaspersky Labs comments on the rumors surrounding the epidemic concerning this menacing Internet worm At the beginning of this week, press agencies for the US, UK and other countries began warning about the unleashing of a new epidemic connected...
25 July 2001 The CyberPolice Task Force - codenamed "Phoenix" - is a voluntary unit formed in 1999 in response to the global threat posed by virus creators, hackers, crackers, and conmen trying to swindle people out of their money via the Internet. It is...
24 July 2001 Kaspersky Labs issues free software for the worm's detection and removal In only six days since its detection on July 18, the network worm "SirCam" has spread throughout the world and has convincingly seized first place amongst the most...
20 July 2001 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, informs users about the discovery of a new worm generation that is capable of Internet functioning absolutely sans using files. This type of malicious program conducts all...
19 July 2001 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the detection of the new dangerous network worm "SirCam" that spreads via e-mail and local network resources. Kaspersky Labs has received several reports of the worm being...
11 July 2001 An Internet Worm "Leave" Spreads in the Form of Security Patch to Windows Kaspersky Lab, an international data-security software development company, warns users of the discovery of a new version of the Internet worm I-Worm.Leave that spreads as a...
14 June 2001 A Trojan program penetrates computers when reading RTF files Kaspersky Lab, an international data-security software-development company, warns users about the discovery of the Trojan "Goga" that steals and sends out from infected computers user...
13 June 2001 WINDOWS VIRUSES Win32.Devir NETWORK WORMS Worm.Cheese Worm.Sadmind Worm.SadMind.b Worm.SadMind.c I-Worm.HappyTime I-Worm.Moncher I-Worm.Puron I-Worm.Hydra I-Worm.Mari WINDOWS VIRUSES Win32.Devir This is a per-process memory resident parasitic...
6 June 2001 Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 6, 2001 - Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns about the discovery of a new extremely dangerous Internet-worm "I-Worm.MsWorld". Up to date Kaspersky Lab has received just...
29 May 2001 A breach in a system's safety is not the biggest threat of RTF files RTF (Rich Text Format), as presented to many users, is considered to be a so-called universal remedy against obtrusive macro-viruses and any other sort of malicious code. Numerous...
21 May 2001 As Kaspersky Lab reported earlier last week, the virus hoax SULFNBK has been making the rounds as also witnessed by other anti-virus developers sending out a warning beacon. It is necessary to convince users that this type of virus does not actually...
18 May 2001 Kaspersky Labs exposes a large-scale Internet defrauding scheme Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns users about the detection of the new, exceptionally dangerous Trojan, "Eurosol." This Trojan steals a...
17 May 2001 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns users about the detection of the latest Internet worm, "Mawanella", that was created by someone utilizing the virus writing kit VBS Worm Generator, which is better...
14 May 2001 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns users about the detection of the new Internet-worm going by the "solid" name of VBS.Hard. Our technical support department has already received several reports from...
10 May 2001 Kaspersky Labs-an international data-security software-development company-as a result of many reports surrounding the detection of and mass infection by the Visual Basic Script worm "Homepage" around the world, reports that within the past few...
23 April 2001 The first harmful program spreading via the popular e-mail "The Bat!" has been detected. Kaspersky Lab, an international data-security software-development company, warns users of the discovery "in the wild" of the first Internet-worm, going by the...
18 April 2001 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns computer users about the discovery "in-the-wild" of the Internet-worm "Matcher" that spreads via e-mail. "This worm s is not anything remarkable, and it does not pose...
12 April 2001 A minor bug could cause global e-mail communications chaos Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 12, 2001 - Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns computer users about the discovery "in-the-wild" of the new...
12 April 2001 Guidelines for Enterprise Wide Linux Security Predictions regarding a world epidemic of Linux-viruses have come true in the first quarter of 2001. The latest incidents caused by the Ramen Internet-worm and its numerous modifications, as well as the...
11 April 2001 Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 11, 2001 - Recently, some anti-virus vendors have been touting the discovery of a new Internet-worm "Logic" - the first malicious code written in the Logo programming language used in a limited number of schools for...
6 April 2001 Magistr follows in the footsteps of the infamous "Chernobyl" virus Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 6, 2001 - Because of the significant increase in the number of infections caused by the recently discovered "Magistr" virus, Kaspersky Labs, an...
14 March 2001 Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 14, 2001 - Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns computer users about the discovery of a new extremely dangerous computer virus "Magistr," which spreads via e-mail and...
7 March 2001 Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 7, 2001 - Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software-development company, warns computer users of the new dangerous Internet-worm "Naked" spreading via e-mail. Kaspersky Labs has already received several...