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March 24, 2004Russian solution leads independent tests by the Spanish IT publication Computer Hoy...
March 17, 2004The March issue of the French publication "PC Direct" featured a comparative test of the seven most popular personal Internet firewalls. Kaspersky Anti-Hacker showed exceptional performance in all areas tested...
March 11, 2004Kaspersky Labs has released an important component of a new generation of antivirus protection for Linux and Free BSD file servers...
March 5, 2004 Russian antivirus service tops the tables in independent German study Virus threats on the Internet are steadily increasing. Given this, the speed at which antivirus developers react to new viruses is a crucial factor in the effectiveness of any...
March 4, 2004 Kaspersky Labs announced today that it will be demonstrating its award-winning information security technology that protects users from all types of malware, spam and hacker attacks on stand 552 at this year's Infosecurity Europe, 27th -29th April...
March 4, 2004Kaspersky Labs offers a unique technology protecting against new Internet worms...
March 3, 2004The creators of Bagle, Mydoom and Netsky exchange pleasantries. In the space of 3 hours on 3rd March 2004, Kaspersky Labs detected 5 new modifications of notorious malicious programs: Bagle.i and Bagle.j, Mydoom.f and Mydoom.g, and Netsky.f..
March 1, 2004 Kaspersky Labs has detected a new virus outbreak, caused by Netsky.d, the fourth version of the Internet worm Netsky (also known as Moodown.d). To date, numerous notifications of infected machines have already been received. Given this, Kaspersky...
March 1, 2004Kaspersky Labs invites you to visit our stand at CeBIT 2004. This major IT exhibition will be held from 18th till 24th March in Hannover, Germany. The primary event will be the presentation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0...
February 24, 2004 First global epidemic of an ICQ worm detected Kaspersky Labs has detected Bizex, a new Internet worm which caused the first global epidemic among users of ICQ, the Internet instant messaging system. At the moment, messages about infection are coming...
February 17, 2004A new breach is revealed in Microsoft Windows: BMP format is no longer safe
February 17, 2004 Kaspersky Labs has detected I-Worm.Bagle.b, a new modification of the notorious Internet worm . To date, several hundred users throughout the world have sent notification of messages infected by the worm. A conservative estimate of the number of...
February 13, 2004 On 12th February, Microsoft Corporation announced that a part of the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 had been leaked and illegally published on the Internet. As a service to computer users, Kaspersky Labs provides information below...
February 10, 2004Kaspersky Labs has detected Doomjuice, a potentially dangerous new Internet worm. Doomjuice was first detected on 9th February; it has already infected more than 100,000 computers across the world...
February 5, 2004 Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer, receives another award from the British publication Virus Bulletin. In the latest tests, conducted on Windows NT, Kaspersky® Anti-Virus 4.5 achieved 100% marks in all areas...
February 3, 2004 Kaspersky Labs product voted 'Best Buy' by the UK IT publication The latest edition of Computer Shopper, one of the most popular IT publications covering computer hardware and software in Britain, gave Kaspersky®Anti-Hacker high marks and...
February 2, 2004Kaspersky Labs presents the Virus Top Twenty for January 2004. Mydoom unarguably led the virus hit-parade in January. The worm appeared on January 27 and accounted for more than three quarters of all infections...
January 28, 2004Kaspersky Labs , a leading information security software developer has detected a new version of Mydoom, the latest Internet worm - Mydoom.b
January 28, 2004 New anti-spam updates every 2 hours Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer, and the company's technological partner, "Ashmanov and Partners", linguistic analysis experts, present a new schedule for the release of anti-spam...