Question about MSblaster worm

Viktor Lazlo viktorlazlo at telus.net
Thu Aug 14 12:02:54 PDT 2003



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Dan Strick wrote:

> Recently I have seen a lot of newspaper articles warning about the
> new "MSblaster" worm.  They say that it uses a denial of service
> attack mode.  Once it installs itself on your system it causes the
> system to crash and makes it difficult for you to get any work done.
>
> In what way is this different from a normal Microsoft product?

The difference is that unlike a normal Micrsoft product, the virus
actually does something . . .

Cheers,

Viktor


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