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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...
...millions--before a restless piece of software code called Sobig.F reached them first. Sobig.F was already ripping through home PCs and business networks like Godzilla on a Tokyo rampage. If you logged on to the Internet last week, chances are you received an email from Sobig.F. Whatever instructions the worm might have got from those 20 Internet servers, investigators knew, had the potential to make Sobig.F so much bigger...
Such networking skills made headlines last week as Welchia, a network-only worm, grounded Air Canada's check-in system and caused three-fourths of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps computers to surrender. But if anyone thought e-mail worms were sluggish by comparison, Sobig.F was on hand to prove them wrong. In a single day, 1 in every 17 mails sent worldwide came from Sobig.F. At the New York Times, reporters were forced to turn off their terminals. Experts were shocked and awed by the worm's unprecedented clip. "This is the undisputed heavyweight champion of viruses," declared Scott...
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