Putting his money where his mouth is regarding the recent Symantec (Norton Utilities, Anti-Virus etc.) Mac OS X virus claims...? Seems not to be, but the fellow who was sponsoring the $25,000 reward has a, shall we say, checkered past. Mac users are still waiting for the first real attack. I could live without it, but this particular religious war (however insane and inane it can get) does liven up our computing experience. If the pop-unders at MacDailyNews get around your browser's pop-up blocker, go here.
posted on Mar 26, 2005 - View this thread

The latest fad. You know you're really famous when there is a virus named after you. Avril lavigne gets digital punk.
posted on Jan 9, 2003 - View this thread

Help yourself to an exploit. No biting social commentary here, just spreading the word on an ooky Win XP exploit in the form of a malicious Help Center request. The patch has been silently rolled into SP1, and is otherwise unavailable. Of course, if you want to install SP1, you'll have to agree to that nasty Trojan EULA.
posted on Sep 11, 2002 - View this thread

First JPEG virus discovered... "The W32/Perrun virus, as it is now being called, extracts data from JPEG files and then injects picture files with infected digital images. A fair warning to those individuals who are fond of sending multimedia files to friends and families." Is everyone's porn stash threatened now?
posted on Jun 14, 2002 - View this thread

Flashers: the Garden of Eden is now closed. It's the first Flash virus. Luckily, it can only hurt you if you run it locally.
posted on Jan 8, 2002 - View this thread

Microsoft considering anti-virus support and why we should care.
posted on Dec 11, 2001 - View this thread

Rob Rosenberger, editor of Vmyths.com, writes that three uniformed federal police visited him in the middle of the night and asked that he not to publish an upcoming column that would embarrass anti-virus vendor for "national security reasons." From late-October, but intriguing.
posted on Nov 8, 2001 - View this thread

W32/Vote@MM - -is being called "low risk" according to McAfee
posted on Sep 24, 2001 - View this thread

New worm doing the rounds. Great.
posted on Sep 18, 2001 - View this thread

Mr. President, I need your advice on this attachment. No matter who you are, you are still foolish to open unscanned attachments. Sircam strikes again!
posted on Aug 3, 2001 - View this thread

Those British boys at it again. It was like this during the war, y'know. I remember my old mate Alan Turing beating the system in much the same way. Saved the world he did. Tally-ho.
posted on Apr 24, 2001 - View this thread

Naked Wife Virus Strips Down Computers. The virus arrives as an e-mail titled "Fw: Naked Wife" with a message body that reads: "My wife never look like that! ;-) Best Regards, (sender's name here)" and an attachment called "NakedWife.exe."
posted on Mar 6, 2001 - View this thread

Blame MICRO$OFT for the "I love you" virus, ohh, and it has 40 authors to it
posted on May 16, 2000 - View this thread

since people who use Linux as a client OS are generally geeks, they tend to use one of the ugly, unfriendly default mail programs that ship with Linux distributions: from IDG with love. I hardly call it ugly if it saves your ass and your virtual "Billions."
posted on May 9, 2000 - View this thread