Weekend round-up

Narrowband blues, 2004 predictions, VeriSign scuttles Symantec, Dloader/Xombie

It’s been a busy few days as 2004 starts to get into full swing.

VB

has a roundup of the weekend’s virus news:

Tech news website Internet News is running an article on

Microsoft’s Narrowband Security Hurdle

, in which Christopher Budd, security program manager with Microsoft’s security response center, describes trying to convince dial-up users to download large patches as an ‘intractable engineering problem’. Microsoft’s provision of a Blaster removal tool – a first for the company – is

also discussed, by Internet News

.

Meanwhile, InfoWorld quotes Computer Associates’ Ian Hameroff and others in a Nostradamus-esque article entitled

Engaging in worm warfare

, which carries predictions for security over the coming year.

A CNet news item reports that

Symantec blames VeriSign

for Norton Antivirus’s recent testudinate performance and system-hanging crashes – in the words of Symantec: “after January 7th your computer slows down and Microsoft Word and Excel will not start”. Oops.

And finally, there has been a spate of articles on

Downloader-DJ

, a.k.a.

Troj/Dloader-L

, a.k.a.

Trojan.Xombe

– a Trojan masquerading as an update to Windows XP.

Posted on 12 January 2004 by

Virus Bulletin