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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.' "

3 of 407 comments (clear)

  1. I'M BLOGGING THIS!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp for blogger chatroom t4c

  2. wormy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh, worm

  3. No Windows Here! by ZeroEpoch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doesn't matter much to me. I use Linux exclusivly at home and in the labs at school while my laptop runs OS X. I dont have anything worthwhile stored on a windows system.