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ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-wrecks-a-zillion-computers dept.

GuitarNeophyte writes "Although the worm hasn't been in the wild for very long, ZOTOB and its variants have already propagated on the internet. Many people have been giving reports that it poses risks of infection to almost all Windows Operating systems, but accorning to this article, the claims are a tad overzealous. FTA, 'The worm only spreads to systems running on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003, and even then, the possibility of the worm affecting Windows XP and Server 2003 are minimal.' "

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  1. not minimal by plarsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is not a minimal risk for a Windows XP system to get infected. Not after Microsoft have changed their Windows Update program. I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing their pirated version of XP.

    1. Re:not minimal by op12 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dear plarsen,

      Send me a list of your friends names and addresses, and I will get the problem resolved immediately.

      -Bill G.

    2. Re:not minimal by damiangerous · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sheesh, cut the guy alittle slack.

  2. Re:August: Season of the crashes by cperciva · · Score: 5, Funny

    August 2003: Sobig
    August 2004: Sasser
    August 2005: Zotob

    What's next?

    I'm just guessing here, but... could "August 2006" be next?

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  3. Re:August: Season of the crashes by oberondarksoul · · Score: 4, Funny

    August 2003: Sobig
    August 2004: Sasser
    August 2005: Zotob

    What's next?

     4. ???
    5. Profit?

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  4. Re:Aren't all media reports of internet viruses by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh, another old-skooler. I got stoned in the eighties, and I've seen Jerusalem.

    In fact, Jerusalem-b was my favourite virus. Sheer genius what a measly few hundred bytes of code can do. Virus writers don't know how good they have it today!

  5. Re:August: Season of the crashes by Mille+Mots · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's next?

    August 2006: Longhorn

  6. it's okay, guys by kwoff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once we control the spice, we control the worm.

  7. Re:"propigated the internet" by sabernet · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We're being attacked by a rabbit virus!"
    "Feed it a carrot!"
    C-A-R-R-O-T

  8. WAZZUP by mary_will_grow · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone remember the Wazzup virus? It attacked MS Word and would randomly place the word "wazzup" in your document when you saved it or printed it. God it was beautiful. So many book reports with "wazzups" circled in red ink....

    People wazzup arent creative like that anymore.

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