HELSINKI, Finland - Spammers are exploiting the public's interest in this week's European storm to spread a computer virus that sends junk e-mail, computer security experts said Friday.

HELSINKI, Finland - Finnish computer experts warned Friday that spammers are taking advantage of people's curiosity over a devastating storm in Europe to spread junk e-mails on the Internet.

Friday's file-destroying worm goes by "Mywife" at Microsoft Corp. and McAfee Inc., "Blackmal" at Symantec Corp. and CA Inc. and "Kama Sutra" in most media reports.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003--Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced that it will host the monthly meeting of the Silicon Valley WebGuild focusing on web security. This meeting will be jointly sponsored by F-Secure(R) Corp. and IBM(R).

By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK (AP) -- The fast-spreading computer virus already blamed for slowing or shutting down e-mail systems worldwide was programmed to coordinate a new type of attack, antivirus experts said Friday.Instructions written into the "Sobig" virus, which began appearing Tuesday, call for infected Windows machines to try to download a program of unknown function as early as 3 p.m.