Press Releases
This page contains news related to African countries, you can access global news by the link.
1 March 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...
1 March 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...
24 February 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...
17 February 2004A new breach is revealed in Microsoft Windows: BMP format is no longer safe
17 February 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...
13 February 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...
10 February 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...
2 February 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...
28 January 2004Kaspersky Labs , a leading information security software developer has detected a new version of Mydoom, the latest Internet worm - Mydoom.b
28 January 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...
26 January 2004Open beta testing of Kasperskyâ Anti-Virus Personal 5.0, a new anti-virus product, which includes the very latest Kaspersky Labs developments for home computers ...
19 January 2004Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer is warning users about I-Worm.Bagle, a new Internet worm detected in the wild. The worm spreads via email with a random sender address. Kaspersky Labs has...
13 January 2004 Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Samba Server provides complete anti-virus protection for Samba file servers using Linux and FreeBSD. The solution is easy to install and configure, and offers complete control over all operations performed on files stored on...
8 January 2004 December's top twenty most wide-spread malicious programs shows the return of the macro-viruses Saver and Thus, and the Windows file virus FunLove.4070. These viruses put an end to the trend of network worms dominating over viruses. This, together...