Press Releases
1 August 2003Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of July 2003...
1 July 2003Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of June 2003. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. Position Virus Percentage by Occurrence...
6 June 2003 A new version of the Tanatos (aka Bugbear) Internet worm has been detected Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the detection of a new version of the 'Tanatos' Internet worm - Tanatos b (aka Bugbear.b). The new...
5 June 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the detection of a new version of the Internet worm Tanatos. The new version of this malicious program, called Tanatos.b, has dangerously destructive capabilities for...
4 June 2003 As has been reported by Kaspersky Labs (http://www.kaspersky.com/news.html?id=978914), a new modification of the "Sobig" network worm has been spreading across the Internet. Company experts have conducted a detailed analysis of the situation and...
2 June 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the detection of a new version of the network worm "Sobig". Considering the wide spread of previous versions, Kaspersky Labs' experts fear the likelihood of a recurrent...
2 June 2003Position Virus Verbreitung in Prozent...
21 May 2003 Trojan program infects computers by exploiting an Internet Explorer vulnerability Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the appearance of the Trojan program, 'StartPage' - the first malware to infect computers...
19 May 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the detection of a new network worm named "Palyh", which is spreading via email and local area networks while masquerading as a communiqu� from Microsoft's technical support....
13 May 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the detection of the five new modifications of the "Lovgate" Internet worm, first detected at the end of February 2003 (to read about it please click here). Presently, there...
12 May 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, announces the detection of the new Internet worm "Fizzer". In addition to e-mail, "Fizzer" spreads via the KaZaA P2P file-sharing network, and employs sneaky and dangerous tactics...
8 May 2003Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of April, 2003. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. position virus percentage by...
2 April 2003Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of March, 2003. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. position virus percentage by...
4 March 2003 A new blended worm / trojan threat appears. Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports registered infections at the hands of the new network worm "Randon". Kaspersky Labs has already received several incident reports...
3 March 2003
3 February 2003Kaspersky Labs presents a review of computer virus activity for January 2003. Top Twenty Most Widespread Malicious Programs
28 January 2003 It is possible to state with certainty that 'Helkern' appeared far before the 25th of January when anti-virus companies first brought it to the attention of the mass media. January 20, 2003 at 19:07 marked the first time data similar to 'Helkern'...
28 January 2003 Kaspersky Labs analyzes the consequences of the latest epidemic The 'Helkern' epidemic has become huge, not only in the number of infected severs (nearly 80,000), geographic coverage and its rate of spreading, but also in the consequences it has...
26 January 2003A new "fileless" worm causes a global outbreak
25 January 2003 This is extremely small (just 376 bytes) Internet worm that affects Microsoft SQL servers. To get into victim machine the worm uses buffer overrun vulnerability (see below). When the worm code gets into vulnerable SQL server it gets control (by...
16 January 2003Virus Review - 2002
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