Targeted Worm Hits Kazaa's Network

Posted by timothy on Monday May 20, 2002 @08:41AM from the worms-churn-the-earth dept.

sh0rtie writes: "Kaspersky Labs and the BBC are reporting that the Fasttrack network that Kazaa uses has been hit by its first targeted worm virus dubbed 'Benjamin.' Is this a clever RIAA creation or that of a mischievous virus writer? I guess we will never know, but the result is that it seems to be bringing unsuspecting users machines to a crawl with full hard drives and clogging up the Fasttrack network with massive amounts of traffic bringing more headaches for ISPs and sysadmins worldwide."

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free software innovation by tps12 · 2002-05-20 09:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

bringing unsuspecting users machines to a crawl with full hard drives and clogging up the Fasttrack network with massive amounts of traffic

Sounds like Kazaa has finally caught up with Gnutella. Proof once again of OSS's superiority.

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