Melissa Virus Creator Jailed David L. Smith, the author of the Melissa virus has been sentenced to twenty months behind bars in Federal prison. The infamous Melissa caused approximately $80 million in damage when it was released in March 1999. The Melissa virus is significant not only because it gained infamy by causing...
New I-Worm "Masana" Takes Name From Trendy Russian Internet Cartoon I-Worm.Masana is a worm virus spreading via the Internet as an attachment to infected emails. The worm itself is a Windows PE EXE file about 107Kb in size - ASPack compresses it, the decompressed size is about 138Kb, written in Delphi.Infected messages contain the following:Another...
Virus Top 20 - April The latest monthly installment of the Kaspersky Virus Top 20 is here. To find out more details about each virus, simply click on the links below.