Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global

securitas writes "The Zotob MS05-039 worm mentioned on Slashdot last Sunday may be the most recent virus that has gone global, hitting Windows 2000 desktops at CNN, ABC, the New York Times, and many others. The virus is spreading around the world rapidly as compromised systems become bots and propagate the worm, with reported outbreaks in Germany and China. InformationWeek has a decent article titled Zotob Proves Patching "Window" Non-Existent. Microsoft calls it a "low impact" threat and tells you What you should know about Zotob. Symantec has W32.Zotob.D removal instructions. Trend Micro thinks that this is a new, different worm altogether and says it is one of the fastest-spreading infections in history."

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Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft is not spreading FUD this time; their own products are much bigger threats

Re:Of course this is more important than...

[DShard]

And none of those things will cause billions in dollars of lost productivity. The worm is by far more damaging.

Re:Fastest spreading ever? Probably not.

[the_Bionic_lemming]

I don't know if this was intended to be funny, but it cracked me up. I guess I've been out of the industry so long that I foget that Windows admins take hourly or daily crashes for granted. What a sad sad world it must be.

Really? If my PC had crashed anytime within the last three years I'd of been pissed.

win 2k and win xp properly maintained don't crash.
anyone who says otherwise is spreading fud.

This Just In

[djfray]

-If Apple were as popular as Windows, the worm-writers would be writing their worms for Apple
-If Linux were as popular as Windows, the worm-writers would be writing their worms for Linux
-Arrogance isn't funny