[pchelpers] News: Superworm seizes 9m PCs

BY KIRSTEN DOYLE   , ITWEB PORTALS EDITOR
Downadup, the superworm that attacks a patched vulnerability in
Microsoft Windows, is making exponential gains if estimates from
researchers at F-Secure are accurate. They show 6.5 million new
infections in the past four days, bringing the total number of machines
it has compromised to almost nine million, says The Register.

More here:
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2009/0901191030.asp?S=TechNiche&A=TNC&O=FPW#1

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