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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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The Bright Side of Blaster 2003-08-18
not-so-leet-dan
"it could have

really blocked almost the whole internet."

Are you freakin kiddin me? The blaster worm could only exploit windoze boxes. Do you have any idea how much of the server world is *nix???...

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