Press Releases
19 December 2003 Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer, presents the annual review of malicious programs. The material below contains information about major virus outbreaks which occurred in 2003, expert opinion about malicious program...
1 December 2003Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top Twenty for the month of November 2003 Position Change Name Percentage by Occurrance 1 New I-Worm.Mimail.c 34.57% 2 New I-Worm.Mimail.g 15.16% 3 - 2 I-Worm.Swen 13.01% 4 + 2 I-Worm.Sober...
14 November 2003 Kaspersky Labs has detected Mimail.i, a new version of the Mimail Internet worm in the wild. Like its predecessors, the latest version of Mimail spreads as an email attachment named paypal.asp.scr. The sender address is fake and appears as...
14 November 2003 Kaspersky Labs has detected a new version of the Mimail Internet worm in the wild. Preliminary investigations suggest that the Mimail.i worm could pose a signinficant threat. Like it's predecessors, the latest version of Mimail spreads as an email...
3 November 2003Kaspersky Labs presents the twenty most widespread viruses for October 2003
31 October 2003 Kaspersky Labs, a leading data security software developer, reports the detection of Mimail.c - a new modification of the infamous network worm, Mimail. There have been numerous registered reports of infection from this malicious program. Mimail.c...
28 October 2003 A new Internet worm lavishes praise on the author of Sobig while masquerading as anti-virus software Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in data security software development, warns about the start of a virus epidemic from the Sober Internet worm....
1 October 2003Kaspersky Labs presents the twenty most widespread viruses for September 2003
26 September 2003 After the shock and horror of September 11, 2001 the U.S.A. decided to fortify its borders with the passage of the Patriot Act. One aspect of the Patriot Act was to upgrade the State Department's Consular Lookout and Support System (CLASS), which...
18 September 2003 Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security expert, announces the detection of the network worm, I-Worm.Swen. This malicious program spreads via email, the Kazaa file sharing network and IRC channels. Infected messages appear to have been sent...
1 September 2003Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of August 2003.
27 August 2003 Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security expert, reports the detection of the very first virus to infect MapInfo (one of the most popular programs for cartographic and geographic analysis) tables. The MBA.First virus is activated when infected...
22 August 2003 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, is supplying computer users with a free-of-charge utility that neutralizes both the "Sobig.f" and "Welchia" network worms. The removal tool detects active worm copies of either virus...
22 August 2003Sobig.f tricks and discredits innocent users
21 August 2003 "Welchia" only offers a false sense of security The appearance of the "Welchia" network worm has provoked lively debate over the legitimacy of malware programs that battle other malware. Unfortunately many users have failed to properly weigh the...
20 August 2003 The sixth version of the Sobig worm has been out in the wild for only one day, but the epidemic has already spread all over the world. Anti-virus analysts at Kaspersky Labs confirm that the resulting epidemic is the most serious within the last year...
19 August 2003 Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in information security warns users about a new modification of the Internet Worm Sobig. Analysts at Kaspersky Labs have received reports about this malware from Europe and Russia. The new version of Sobig is very...
19 August 2003Viruses Battle Each Other On The Internet For Supremacy
15 August 2003Detecting and Disinfecting Lovesan...
14 August 2003Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in information security offers a free utility for disinfecting computers attacked by Lovesan.
13 August 2003Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in information security, reports the detection of a new modification of the notorious "Lovesan" worm (also know as "Blaster")...
12 August 2003The Lovesan worm attacks the DCOM RPC vulnerability in Windows
4 August 2003Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in information security, has detected a new Internet worm - Autorooter. Autorooter has already been sent as spam to many email recipients ...
2 August 2003 New fun and games from Russian virus writers. Kaspersky Labs, a leading expert in information security would like to inform you about Mimail, a new Internet worm. Our round-the-clock technical support has already heard of numerous computers infected...