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Thursday, September 20, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813473,00.html Meet the brilliant (yet evil) Nimda worm Robert Vamosi, Associate Editor, ZDNet Reviews What if you took the last five Internet worms and put them in a blender? That's what Nimda (w32.Nimda.a@mm) is--a combination of Code Red, Code Blue, Apost, Magistr.B, and SirCam. It's brilliant, and at the same time very evil. Some of us laughed when the FBI held a press conference in early August to warn that Code Red could slow down, if not shut down, the Internet. But no one was laughing on Tuesday, Sept. 18, when the Net actually appeared to slow worldwide....
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