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ARRESTED. JEFFREY LEE PARSON, 18, for allegedly spreading a viruslike worm that, according to the FBI, infected at least 7,000 computers; in Hopkins, Minn. The worm is a modified version of Blaster that has inundated some 500,000 computers worldwide since its release in mid-August. Parson could get 10 years in prison if convicted...
Another recent threat to computer networks, the Blaster worm, exploits a hole in Windows 2000 and XP to infect a computer...
...While Blaster has been present since the summer school term, Sobig is a relatively new threat, Davis said...
...attack the Blaster worm, HASCS has provided a patch on their website that will fix infected machines by closing the vulnerability that the worm and its variants exploit to attack computers. But Blaster hits systems so quickly that students must install the patch immediately upon connecting to the network, Davis said...
...brand new machine could be plugged into the network, and within seconds, be infected by the Blaster worm,” he said. “Students should take this as an extremely serious threat. Everyone should go and run this tool...