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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 01:22 PM
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Net Worm Snarls Thousands of Computers
NEW YORK - An Internet worm that takes advantage of a known flaw with the Windows operating system raced around the world Monday, snarling tens of thousands of computers and causing Internet traffic to slow.

Though Microsoft Corp. had announced the flaw with the so-called Local Security Authority Subsystem Service last month, many computer owners had yet to apply the fix that the company had released.

Unlike most outbreaks, the Sasser worm does not require users to activate it by clicking on an e-mail attachment. Sasser is known as a network worm because it can automatically scan the Internet for computers with the security flaw and send a copy of itself there.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=15&u=/ap/computer_worm
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 01:25 PM
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1. Tell me about it
Been beating on this bug all day. 100s of our systems got hosed. Took down servers and everything. Even more variants piling in while we beat the older strains to death. Nasty lil bug.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 01:43 PM
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2. Times like these
are when I love my Mac!
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