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December 11, 2002 Customer Profile Reddish Vale (www.reddish.stockport.sch.uk) is a UK-based, comprehensive Technology College, educating over 1450 pupils in the 11-16-age range. The College is heavily focused on IT and in 2001 reached the third phase of its...
December 6, 2002 Kaspersky Labs broadens its line of information security products. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the release of the fully functional personal firewall - Kaspersky® Anti-Hacker, designed to...
December 6, 2002 Customer profile The Mill (www.mill.co.uk) is an international London-based company established in 1990. The Mill brand is now synonymous with high quality award-winning visual effects for commercials and films. The group provides a unique range of...
December 3, 2002 Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of November. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. position virus percentage by occurrence I-Worm.Lentin 27,7 I-Worm.Klez.h 23,4 I-Worm.Tanatos 3,2...
November 29, 2002 Customer's profile The I.NET Group is Italy's market-leading Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP). Through its own Internet Protocol network and Web Farm network, it delivers managed connectivity, housing and value-added infrastructure services...
November 27, 2002 Kaspersky Labs is warning all users against the new Internet worm "Winevar" (also known as "Korean Worm"). This malicious program was detected last week and was added to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus database. It has only been during today that we have...
November 25, 2002 Customer's profile Stemcor Holdings Stemcor Limited (www.stemcor.com) is an independent London-based company operating on the market of the international distribution of steel. Stemcor's worldwide network of offices provides services for all aspects...
November 25, 2002 Have fun buying! Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, invites users to take part in a virtual battle against viruses and win discounts towards the purchase of Kaspersky Anti-Virus Solutions. The game "Virus Hunter" can...
November 21, 2002 Kaspersky Labs announces the launch of the beta version of Kaspersky Security for PDA 4.0 and invites all interested to take part in the public beta testing of this product. Kaspersky® Security for PDA is a protection system designed to...
November 20, 2002 Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the expansion of its regional office network with the opening of an office in Sophia Antipolis, France. The French market is one of Kaspersky Labs' key areas of...
November 15, 2002 Kaspersky Labs offers an additional service for customers in the U.S. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces an enhancement to the services offered to its customers in the U.S. In addition to the traditional...
November 13, 2002 Kaspersky Anti-Virus wins yet another Virus Bulletin 100% award. Virus Bulletin, a British magazine specializing in the computer virus problem, has published in its November edition the results of its regularly scheduled anti-virus product...
November 8, 2002Kaspersky Labs informs users that on the night the November 7th there was a massive attack against the company's Web server. The attack resulted in a group of hackers sending the subscribers of the Kaspersky Labs e-mail newsletter a message...
November 7, 2002 Kaspersky Labs, an international data security software developer, reports the appearance of a new network worm named "Roron", constructed in Bulgaria. Presently six variations of the worm have already been detected and have been credited with...
November 6, 2002 Kaspersky Labs brings attention to the spread of a rumor among Internet users regarding a new computer virus that infects mobile telephones and renders them junk. The message being sent around looks as follows: If you receive a phone call and your...
November 1, 2002 Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top 20 for the month of October. The percentage shown represents the percentage of registered incidences. 1 I-Worm.Tanatos 44.9% 2 I-Worm.Lentin 21.6% 3 I-Worm.Klez 14% 4 Macro.Word97.Thus 3.1% 5 I-Worm.Hybris 1.1%...
October 21, 2002 :though not for users of Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the detection of a new modification of the network worm 'Opasoft' (also known as 'Opaserv' and 'Brasil'). Kaspersky Labs has...
October 17, 2002 Network Worms I-Worm.Chet I-Worm.Gismor I-Worm.Pepex Worm.P2P.Relmony Windows Viruses Win32.Ramlide Win32.Porex Linux Viruses Linux.Gildo Trojan Programs Backdoor.Cabrotor Trojan.Spy.GreenScreen Macro Viruses Macro.Word97.Nori Virus Constructors...
October 16, 2002 Kaspersky Labs recommends computer users urgently install patch to defend against "Netdex". Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports the detection of the Trojan horse 'Netdex', which exploits a vulnerability in the...
October 16, 2002 At the end of September, in one of the People's Republic of China's technology capitals, the city of Tianjin, took place the large yearly national conference devoted to the computer virus threat and the development of effective methods of defense....
October 11, 2002 Kaspersky Labs announces the release of its regularly scheduled cumulative update (Oct. 11, 2002): new functions for handling the CAB archive format improved procedure for handling Inno and BZIP archives improved procedure for handling the following...
October 10, 2002 Kaspersky Labs announces the release of Maintenance Pack 4 for the Kaspersky Anti-Virus product family (Russian and English versions): Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal (versions 4.0.6.0, 4.0.7.0) Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro (versions 4.0.6.0,...
October 10, 2002 The Internet worm "Fleming" has been detected stealing registration information from computer games. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the detection of a multi-component malicious program spreading itself...
October 7, 2002 In connection with the numerous infections the world over at the hands of the Tanatos and Opasoft Internet worms, Kaspersky Labs has developed a free-of-charge utility for detecting and deleting these malicious programs. The utility can be...