Tag: china
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Four charged with writing Fujacks
Malware authors and sellers appear in Chinese court. Four men have appeared in a public court in Hubei Province, China, charged with writing, selling and spreading the W32/Fujacks virus and worm, often referred to as the ‘Panda burning joss-sticks’ virus in reference to the icon marking infected files in some variants. The W32/Fujacks family of…
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China steps up fight against spammers
Blacklist aims to reduce massive spamming levels. Chinese web organisation the Internet Society of China (ISC) has announced the setting up of a central anti-spam blacklist, to allow service providers and filtering software to block known senders of spam. The list already contains 100,000 known-bad IP addresses, mostly gathered via reports from members of the…
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Symantec sued for false positive
Chinese FP issue leads to court case. A Chinese lawyer has begun court proceedings against security firm Symantec , claiming damages as a result of the widely-publicised false positive the product raised against a vital Windows component two weeks ago. Speculation about possible compensation payments has been in the air ever since the incident, which…
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Norton FP trashes Chinese systems
Vital DLLs flagged as malware disable Windows XP across China. A serious false positive, caused by an erroneous update to Symantec ‘s Norton Anti-virus product range issued late last week, has left thousands of Chinese computers in an unusable state. Updates released on Thursday 17 May led the Symantec security software, including Norton Internet Security…
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1.4 million Chinese infected over holiday week
May vacations bring trojan avalanche for gamers and filesharers. Chinese computers, in heavy use with many people off work for the Labour Day holiday week, have suffered a major surge in malware infections, as a surge in the number of people browsing the web, shopping online, sharing files and playing online games has led to…