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30 October 2000 Cambridge, UK, October 30, 2000 - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software-development company, warns users of the discovery of Sonic, a new Internet-worm. This worm was discovered in France and Germany in the morning on 30 October...
28 October 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. comments on the recent virus incident Cambridge, UK, October 28, 2000 - As disclosed on Friday, the corporate network of Microsoft, the world's largest software developer, was attacked by unknown hackers. The hackers used the QAZ...
27 October 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. announces the release of the following cumulative update for the AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) anti-virus database. AVP users can download it for FREE from Kaspersky Lab Web sites. The cumulative update includes a set of new...
25 October 2000 A Dangerous Monster Can Hide Within Harmless Files Cambridge, UK, October 25, 2000 - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, considers it necessary to draw users' attention to a threat that programs with a PIF...
23 October 2000 Italian online-magazine Manager.it has chosen Kaspersky Anti-Virus Cambridge, UK, 20 October 2000, - the well-known Italian information Web-magazine Manager.it has recently chosen Kaspersky<sup>TM</sup> Anti-Virus (AVP) as the best...
19 October 2000 Published from SC-Online The Invulnerable Penguin? by Denis Zenkin, Kaspersky Lab The debate as to how strong the Linux immune system is, from a virus protection point of view, has continued nearly from the date the operating system was introduced....
18 October 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. has reduced price of AVP for Linux Workstation by 50%. Cambridge, UK, 18 October 2000, - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announces the significant price reduction of AntiViral...
13 October 2000 The European centre for IT security "Secusys" comments on the rapidity of anti-virus companies' response to new virus attacks Cambridge, UK, October 13, 2000 - On 10 October, Kaspersky Labs Int. received several reports from France about the...
10 October 2000 Cambridge, UK, October 10, 2000 - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announces that one of Europe's largest oil companies, TatNeft (AO) (www.tatneft.ru), has chosen a comprehensive anti-virus security...
9 October 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. launches an Affiliate Network Program Cambridge, UK, October 9, 2000, - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announces the launching of its Affiliate Network Program, with the purpose of...
6 October 2000 <h4><i>A study-guide on how to detect a virus hoax yourself</i></h4> <p>It is difficult to imagine anybody today who does not treat computer viruses as a real threat to a regularly functioning computer system. However,...
3 October 2000 New technologies, new interface! Cambridge, UK, October 2, 2000 - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announces the launch of a new version, 3.5, of its world-famous, award-winning virus hunter, AntiViral...
26 September 2000 Why are some of the remote administration programs being called "backdoors"? As you know, one of the most frequently occurring malicious programs is a "Trojan horse." Just like their ancient namesake, "Trojan horses" intrude into PCs under the...
22 September 2000 A new version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (AVP) for Linux has been released! Cambridge, UK, September 22, 2000, - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announces a new version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (AVP) for...
21 September 2000 On 19 August, Sun Microsystems and some of its partners announced the shipment of Mobile Information Device (MID) standard, based on the Java programming language (Java<sup>TM</sup> 2 Platform Micro Edition - J2ME) for use on mobile...
16 September 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software vendor, reports the detection of another Internet-worm "I-Worm.Funny". The virus has been reported to be "in-the-wild" in Switzerland. General Characteristics This is an Internet worm written...
12 September 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. refutes accusations about the spreading of "virus hysteria" The W2K.Stream virus has not only generated some lively debate amongst anti-virus experts relative to this sort of malicious program's potential danger. W2K.Stream has...
11 September 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int. is solving the problem of ADS NTFS viruses On September 4, 2000, Kaspersky Labs Int. released a warning about the appearance of the W2K.Stream virus; the first known malicious code, which uses the alternate data streams (ADS) of...
4 September 2000 <p><b>Moscow, Russia, September 4, 2000</b> - Kaspersky Lab, an international anti-virus software development company, announces the discovery of <b>W2K.Stream</b> virus, which represents a new generation of malicious...
31 August 2000 <p><b>Moscow, Russia, August 31, 2000</b> - Because of the numerous user requests regarding the discovery of the first true wireless virus for mobile phones, Kaspersky Lab, an international anti-virus software development company,...
16 August 2000 Yet another "LoveLetter" variation is masquerading as a r�sum� Cambridge, UK, August 16, 2000 - Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, announced today the discovery of another variation of the "LoveLetter"...
3 August 2000 Kaspersky Labs Int., an international anti-virus software development company, reports the appearance of a new harmful program capable of wreaking havoc transmitting via mobile phones. In the past few months, mobile phones and their users have had...
27 July 2000 Find out who won, placed, and showed Dear Inquisitive Kaspersky Web site Visitor, We are delighted to inform you of the results of the Kaspersky Lab lottery held in observance of our company's 3rd anniversary. The drawing was held On July 26th, with...
24 July 2000 This cumulative update to AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) includes all previously released daily, weekly and cumulative updates. New features: New capabilities for script-programs processing. Full support for VBS, JS, HTML, mIRC, BAT formats added....