Computer experts think the author of the SoBig computer virus may be trying to construct a profit-making network of machines to send junk email for companies willing to pay, a newspaper reports.

One of the biggest mistakes being made on the anti-spam front by vendors, service providers, lawmakers, and lawyers is the focus they are placing on technological and legal solutions that attempt to ...

update The latest variant of the Sobig virus has the ability to spread across file-sharing networks as well as by email, making it the worst strain yet, experts warned on Tuesday afternoon. Email ...

LONDON -- The fast-spreading Sobig.F e-mail virus is slowing after failing in its initial bid to bog down the Internet, but security experts issued fresh warnings to computer users Sunday to brace for ...

A powerful e-mail virus known as SoBig was thwarted Friday as it attempted to change itself, possibly into a more destructive force. A coordinated defense by commercial and government computer experts ...

The Sobig Windows virus that overwhelmed e-mail inboxes around the world is one of the fastest growing viruses ever. E-mail filtering firm MessageLabs said it had intercepted more than a million ...

It’s part-spam, part-virus and becoming a complete nuisance. The latest version of the “SoBig” virus continued to worm its way around the Internet on Thursday, infecting far more computers than any of ...

This week’s computer nuisance, the Sobig virus, continued its march around the Internet Wednesday, infecting thousands of computers and hundreds of corporations. Even innocent bystanders were also hit ...

Dec. 17 -- First discovered in August 2003, mass-mailing worm W32/Sobig.F-mm caused a lot of grief in a short amount of time, and is still in the top 10 viruses plaguing users. W32/Sobig.F-mm was ...

Even seasoned antivirus experts hadn’t seen anything like the Sobig-F e-mail worm: Within hours of its release on Aug. 19, it created a million copies of itself and was spreading worldwide, shattering ...

NEW YORK – A virus that debuted this week has been declared the fastest spreading e-mail plague of all time, while another malicious program that hit last week continued to disrupt computers worldwide ...