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The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, 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.

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conspiracy 2003-08-17
Anonymouse
Due to the non destructive nature of Blaster, I am inclined to think that an organisation Such as L.S.D may have produced this to kick MS in the pants. Surely any self-respecting virus writing script kiddy would have done something more.... interesting (or maybe it was written by a 7 yearold)....

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