...County was cleaning the bug from 12,000 computers. On Wednesday, four new variants of the worm had been detected by F-Secure Corp. in Finland, bringing the total to 11, said Mikko Hypponen, the company's manager of antivirus research. He...

...broadcast, according to spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. On Wednesday, four new variants of the worm had been detected by F-Secure Corp. in Finland, bringing the total to 11, said Mikko Hypponen, the company's manager of anti-virus research...

...BECAUSE IF YOU ANSWER THE CALL, YOUR PHONE WILL BE INFECTED BY THIS VIRUS." Mikko Hypponen, director of Finland's F-Secure Corp., said viruses can't spread that way. Mobile phones could eventually be susceptible to viruses because they use...

...mom-and-pop companies, the ones without the expertise," said Mikko Hypponen, anti-virus research manager at F-Secure Corp. Of the nearly 200 million downloads of the patch that averts Sasser, three-quarters came through the auto-update...

...rogue e-mail servers for spreading junk e-mail, said Mikko Hypponen, the manager of antivirus research with F-Secure Corp. in Finland. He said users should clean their computers using antivirus software or turn off their machines. Automaker...

...they were as widely used as Microsoft's. In fact, said Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research for F-Secure Corp., "Microsoft has really picked up their act since 2000, 2001."

...PCs worldwide are infected with viruses that could give hackers full control, according to security software maker F-Secure Corp. Computers often get infected when people open e-mail attachments from unknown sources or visit a malicious Web...

...to install rogue software, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer for Finnish security research company F-Secure Corp. "The bottom line is you couldn't use a vulnerability like this to write a worm or hack a Vista system remotely...

...It looks like many big companies learned the lesson already," said Mikael Albrecht, a product manager with F-Secure Corp. in Finland. "But there are companies, and even large corporations, that did not patch the system, and they...

...itself on computers infected by last month's Mydoom outbreak, said Mikko Hypponen, manager of antivirus research at F-Secure Corp. in Finland. He said such programs can also sneak in if computer owners fail to install patches to fix known Windows...