Paul Roberts

Internet security companies said Monday that they discovered a new version of the MyDoom e-mail worm circulating on the Internet.

E-mail users who were slow to update their antivirus software last week may have been surprised to receive a flood of e-mail messages containing ZIP files from long lost acquaintances, business partners and complete strangers.

Hewlett Packard Co. continued its strategy of using acquisitions to augment the HP OpenView management software Wednesday, announcing an agreement to buy two management software companies: Novadigm Inc. of Mahwah, N.J., and Consera Software of Bellevue, Wash.

A new version of the Mydoom e-mail worm is circulating on the Internet, according to warnings from antivirus companies.

The U.S. federal government will join a gaggle of antivirus companies and public-private groups in warning citizens about virus outbreaks such as the recent Mydoom e-mail worm and other online threats, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A new computer virus that spreads using e-mail messages is breaking records for new infections set by the last major e-mail worm, Sobig.F, according to leading antivirus software companies and e-mail security firms.

Network Associates Inc. (NAI) will become the latest security software maker to address the growing problem of stealth surveillance software known as spyware when it announces a new consumer product for locating and removing the applications on Monday.

Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly began spreading around the world, flooding computer networks with worm-generated traffic and knocking vital database servers offline.