Nimda Worm
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The document discusses the Nimda worm, one of the first viruses to infect existing files. It was first discovered in September 2001 and spread through email attachments and network shares. The worm's name is "Admin" spelled backwards and it caused denial of service attacks by overloading servers. While economically damaging, it had a relatively minor overall impact. The writer seems to have created the worm to cause disruption.
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Nimda Worm
- 1. NIMDA WORM Justin Moose
- 2. Nimda Worm Facts It’s name is Admin backwards. A DoS Attack (Denial of Service) - seeks out vulnerable servers causing virtual traffic jams on the Internet First virus to infect other already existing files Worm first discovered September 18, 2001 Worm fix made on March 29, 2001
- 3. Nimda Worm Facts cont. Microsoft released the official fix for the Nimda Worm Computers from all around the world were infected with the worm You get it from E-Mail, Open Network Shares, and Compromised Websites Prevent it with Anti-Virus
- 4. Opinion of Virus I believe the impact is more economic than anything else. The worm was at large soon after the damage from the Code Red virus and kind of kicked companies while they were down, trying to recover from the Code Red. I guess the writer was thinking of ways to be a jerk. Spreading a virus was his goal I guess.
- 5. References http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-144.shtml http://antivirus.about.com/cs/allabout/a/nimdadum.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimda _( computer_worm )