March 3 -- February (sorry, March) went out like a lion with back-to-back viruses. The latest, w32/Netsky.C-mm, also known as i-worm.moodoom.c , has an increased vocabulary of subject, message and ...

March 4 -- Unlike other recent computer e-mail bugs, Netsky.C does not exploit any holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Outlook programs and infects only by running an executable file. All ...

Security experts suspect that the author of Netsky, which has been one of the most successful pieces of malware this year, is distributing the worm's source code among the black-hat community. On ...

The 30th variant of mass mailing worm Bagle was discovered on Thursday, which makes it one of the most persistent worms ever discovered, but in terms of infection rates, archrival Netsky is ahead by a ...

comment I'm often asked who writes computer viruses. The stereotype is of an antisocial, unathletic male loner sitting in a basement late at night. But Sarah Gordon, virus writer profiler for Symantec ...

The unknown team of programmers who created the latest variant of the Netsky virus claim to be the authors of the Sasser worm--and researchers have found evidence that supports that assertion. The ...

E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate. The worm first appeared on February 17 and appears to have originated in the Netherlands. MessageLabs, an e-mail ...

File-sharing network eDonkey's main Web site has been knocked offline following an attack from Netsky, but Kazaa has survived--so far. Earlier this week, file-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey and ...

Origins: Netsky is a mass-mailing worm that affects only Microsoft NT and Windows-based systems. It spreads by sending itself as an e-mail attachment to addresses found on victims' machines and by ...