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Asus admits Eee Box mini PC shipped with virus

Other regions as well as Japan affected?

Reg Hardware 8 Oct 12:10

YouTube fake tool dumbs down malware distribution

Nothing on the internet is real, man

12 Sep 11:37

Trend virus update freezes some PCs

Chicken Little pox

8 Sep 16:29

Anatomy of a malware scam

The evil genius of XP Antivirus 2008

22 Aug 18:45

Virus writers go for Olympic gold

Back-ends left open to superbly over-muscled Trojan

12 Aug 10:43

McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live

Friendly fire from update

6 Aug 17:25

Microsoft charts security vuln MAPP

More transparency, better protection

5 Aug 17:49

Worms spread via spam on Facebook and MySpace

'Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street'

1 Aug 10:06

AVG update nails down stability bugs

Engine upgrade follows LinkScanner traffic spew fix

31 Jul 10:11

Malware authors declare start of World War III (again)

Trojan apocalypse

12 Jul 00:32

Tennis sites hit by drive-by download attacks

You cannot be serious

25 Jun 15:01

Microsoft fights gaming Trojan menace

Resident Evil

23 Jun 23:55

Phlashing attack thrashes embedded systems

Router bricking risk

21 May 16:16

Mass SQL injection hits English language websites

Chinese hackers spread the silent love

21 May 07:02

DVD smut malware blights US forces in Iraq

A different kind of insurgency

12 May 17:38

Firefox language pack provides adware back-door

Ho Chi Hack trail

8 May 11:56

Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks

Worst viral outbreak in three years

7 May 12:54

Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse

Comment 'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'

30 Apr 21:55

Anti-virus hacking contest polarizes vendors

Race to Zero intolerance

28 Apr 16:22

VXers slap copyright notices on malware

What happened to honour among thieves?

28 Apr 11:04

Facebook Troll sends mob against Cluley

'Joe Job' social networking attack

23 Apr 08:16

Shrinking patch windows hit by automated attacks

Quick and dirty exploit peril

21 Apr 12:33

Database Trojan infests pro-Tibet websites

Chinese whispers

14 Apr 11:02

Move over Storm - there's a bigger, stealthier botnet in town

400,000 machines get Kraken

7 Apr 13:02

Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests

That would be a FAIL, then

3 Apr 16:52

Storm Worms exploit April Fools

Lazy attack aims to dupe the credulous

1 Apr 13:45

Adware slips between pages of e-book

Iliad reader carries unwelcome surprise

31 Mar 06:02

Unpatched RealPlayer bug paves way for drive-by downloads

ActiveX-ploit

12 Mar 17:59

Infamous malware group calls it quits

29A has left the building

7 Mar 16:02

Hackers find clever new way to hose Google users

Updated IFRAME piggybacking

6 Mar 03:06

Underground tools foil generic virus detection

Covert malware testing

3 Mar 09:06

Orkut worm feeds on scraps

From social networking to social engineering

29 Feb 23:21

Symantec and Trend grapple with buffer overflow bugs

Who guards the guards?

29 Feb 08:55

Malware writers think global, act local

Mono-linguists need not apply

22 Feb 00:50

Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site

Who guards the guards?

8 Feb 15:03

Best Buy 'framed' by pesky Windows virus

Malware hitches a ride on digital photo frames

25 Jan 16:14

Growing virus production taxes security firms

The engines cannae take it, captain

25 Jan 14:11

Virus writers charged with copyright violation

Movie-munching Trojan miscreants go all Winny

24 Jan 16:11

Love lure used to spread mobile malware

Symbian slimeware spreads slowly

22 Jan 12:53

Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive

Security research, Web 2.0 style

Channel Register 16 Jan 18:40

Poisoned MySpace page masquerades as Windows Update

Befriend an infection

12 Jan 01:18

Virus writers have girlfriends - official

And some don't even need inflating

15 Apr 2005, 16:27

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