Sasser net worm set for long life
Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:42 EST
The Sasser Windows worm that struck earlier this week is on the wane. Since its first appearance on 1 May the virus has disrupted work in many organisations and infected hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs. But as firms patch vulnerable PCs and get back to working normally security experts warn that the worm will be around for a long time to come. Some fear that future versions of the worm will be much harder to defend against. The Sasser worm appeared on 1 May and since then has infected perhaps a million Windows machines all around the world.
Hospitals, banks, airlines, government agencies and many home users have been infected by the worm which makes PCs unusable by making them crash repeatedly.
The virus can infect PCs running Windows 2000 and XP.
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