Microsoft Corp. Windows users whose systems were infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems and then installs ...

Microsoft Corp. Windows users infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems, then installs a software patch to ...

The Blaster worm – also known as MSBlast or LoveSAN – has spread rapidly since it was first noticed on Monday. It has infected an estimated 188,000 systems running Microsoft operating systems, ...

A new worm that exploits a widespread vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system continued its spread today, making the outbreak the most serious since the appearance of the SQL ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson told Jeffrey Lee Parson not to access the Internet or any other network connection as a condition of his release. He did not enter a plea during his initial ...

The damage the "Blaster" worm caused this week was comparatively limited, computer experts say, and the story of its digital life is hardly different from thousands of other computer bugs released ...

With a new version of the W32.Blaster worm on the loose and set to spawn a massive denial-of-service attack on a Microsoft Web site Saturday, the software maker Friday released a set of security ...

A 19-year-old pleaded guilty in a Minnesota federal court on Wednesday to spreading the W32.Blaster-B worm over the Internet. Jeffrey Lee Parson, of Hopkins, Minnesota, said he was responsible for ...

Microsoft Corp. blunted an expected attack on its Web site yesterday by shutting down the targeted Web page and increasing its ability to handle large amounts of traffic. Those steps, and presumably ...