Virus Creators Sharing More Code

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @02:28AM from the therefore-a-witch dept.

arpy writes "The Washington Times is carrying a report on a 5% increase in publicly available virus code in 2003 (based on a Symantec report). There are now about seven versions of MyDoom, and at least 14 each of Netsky and Beagle. Explains why my email account is overloaded with these little bastards. PC World is reporting changes in the countries that virus are originating from: Australia shot from 14th place to 5th over the last six months of 2003! The source of these stories seems to be the March 2004 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report." (This last requires registration to download.)

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Re:Now that there is more code available... by eraserewind · 2004-03-17 02:55 · Score: 4, Informative

Yes, and it caused more damage than the one that it was supposed to be protecting you against. It was the only worm/virus so far to cause a global outage in the company where I work.
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