Viruses, worms and e-mail trojans
Net4TV:
WebTV Security Breach: Hijack Code Can Forward Stored Mail
00-Apr LWN Eric Raymond:
Microsoft -- Designed for Insecurity
Viruses, worms and e-mail trojans
00-Jan CNet:
Windows 2000 virus detected
SARC:
SubSeven (Windows trojan)
00-Mar Wired:
WebTV's 'Non-Virus' Virus
00-May TMF:
RFC1521 on email attachments
As you can see, by executing an attachment using an interpreter of some type (whether it
be IE, Word, VB, or a native executable), Outlook is exposing a well known security hole
that is specifically warned against in the MIME specification.
00-May ZDNet:
NewLove bug nastier than ILOVEYOU
00-May Wired:
Worm Wreaked Gov't Havoc
00-May ABC:
`Killer Resume' Doing a Job on E-Mail Systems
00-Aug Cnet:
Consumers open email to targeted virus attacks
01-Jan ZDNet::
Hybris virus: Sleeper hit of 2001
01-Jan:
Four European Companies Wiped Out by New Worm Little Davinia
01-Feb Washington Post:
Virus Spreads in Tennis Star Guise
01-Apr Computerworld:
Microsoft gives a virus to its support customers
"Microsoft received notification of some infected files on a private access Web site for Premier Support and Microsoft Gold Certified Partners in the U.S. only," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
01-Jul CNet:
White House dodges Web worm
Computer worms are programs that have the ability to spread across Internet and execute instructions. In
this case, the worm sought out vulnerable Web servers using Microsoft software. As for the instructions,
the Code Red worm was written to flood the Whitehouse.gov site with a massive amount of data, overwhelming
it to the point where it could not be accessed.
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