hackfix-virusnews: Thousands infected as Sasser spreads
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- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 02:57:48 -0400
Thousands infected as Sasser spreads
May 4, 2004 - 9:15AM
The fast-spreading Sasser computer worm has infected
hundreds of thousands of PCs globally and the number
could soon rise sharply, a top computer security
official said today.
In Australia, Westpac Bank said it was hit by the
worm, and branches had to use pen and paper to allow
them to keep trading, an Australian newspaper
reported.
"If you take a normal Windows PC and connect to the
internet, you will be infected in 10 minutes (without
protection)," Mikko Hypponen, Anti-Virus Research
Director at Finnish data security firm F-Secure, told
Reuters.
Read more here:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/04/108343657
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