, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14
The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.
Anonymous
if the worm did not show it's presence by
shutting dow nthe system. If it didn't do
anything but starting it's malicious routine
long after it's distribution, it could have
really blocked almost the whole internet....
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