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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Worm? or Trojan? by GrenDel+Fuego · 2002-05-20 09:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

They're calling it a worm, but dosen't a worm need to propogate itself?

This is making itself available for unsuspecting people to help it spread. This seems more like a trojan to me.