ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected?

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.' "

Comments

not minimal

[plarsen]

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.

Re:not minimal

[op12]

Dear plarsen,

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

-Bill G.

Re:not minimal

[damiangerous]

Sheesh, cut the guy alittle slack.

Re:August: Season of the crashes

[cperciva]

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

What's next?

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

Re:Aren't all media reports of internet viruses

[Trigun]

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!

Re:August: Season of the crashes

[Mille Mots]

What's next?

August 2006: Longhorn

it's okay, guys

[kwoff]

Once we control the spice, we control the worm.