Internet Worms War?
Filed in: Security — August 18th, 2005
The Zotob worm may be one of the released worms during virus writers wars.
Some security researchers claim the outbreak is tied to a “war” between rival virus writers. “We seem to have a botwar on our hands,” Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish software security firm F-Secure said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
“There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they were competing to build the biggest network of infected machines,” he said.
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The Zotob worm infects Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1, here are the prevention and cures.
Thought:
Wow! The hacker gangs are having cyber war in Internet. As usual, the victim of war is always the innocents…
