Since its debut about six weeks ago, 40 Mytob variants have appeared, a new record for a worm in the quantity count. "The writer or writers of Mytob have been very busy creating variants," said ...

According to the analysis conducted by U.K.-based security vendor Sophos, Farid Essebar, 18, also known as "Diabl0," may have written 20 variations of the Mytob mass-mailed worm and one version of ...

Mytob-Z was the only virus discovered in April to make the top 10 and was responsible for 1.3 percent of all infections. Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, said that variants of Zafi ...

Ekici along with Farid Essebar, an 18-year-old Moroccan national born in Russia, are believed to be responsible for Zotob and the earlier Mytob and Rbot worms. Essebar was arrested in Morocco on ...

Despite the fact that Netsky.P has increased its share of the most reported viruses according to antivirus firm Sophos, up from 14 percent in July, the Mytob family of worms remains a threat to PC ...

A new variant of the MYTOB worm has been discovered that pretends to be a legitimate email warning of a delivery error or email account problem. A new variant of the ...

The investigation to apprehend the creator of the Mytob worm, which was released in February, began in late March, but the investigation that eventually led to the arrests of Ekici and Essebar ...

NEW DELHI: TrendLabs has declared a medium risk virus alert to control the spread of WORM_MYTOB.MX. TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in ...

Its old rival, Mytob.c, which in November made a strong return to sixth place, lost only a little ground and dropped to seventh. Nyxem.E and Mytob.C, which fought bitter battles for the top ...

(Sophos) W32/Mytob-IF — Another Mytob e-mail worm that spreads through message looking to be an account suspension warning. The virus installs “lspool.exe” in the Windows System folder and ...

The most frequently occurring virus was Mytob.FK with 15.49pc of infections. Amazingly Netsky.P, which has been around since March of last year, was in second place with 15.36pc. The remaining top ...

Some 82pc of all emails sent to Irish inboxes are now spam, according to Irish independent consulting and technical services company IT Force. The IT Force weekly survey showed a total of 17pc of ...