Computer worm still has legs

[steve2470]

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzviru4388017aug18,0,6287885.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

Hackers continued tweaking a computer virus yesterday, trying to stay one step ahead of anti-virus software.

At least six new variants of the virus hit the Web yesterday after the virus was unleashed on Sunday, said Fred Rica, a partner at the computer and information security group at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Manhattan.



Several companies hit by the Zotob virus continued to show significant slowdowns on their Web sites, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., company that monitors Internet performance of sites.

ABC.com, for instance, took 24 seconds to serve up pages to users from 1 to 4 p.m. yesterday, longer than the normal response time of two to three seconds, but the site returned to normal performance by late afternoon, Keynote reported.

On Tuesday, however, the staff at ABC's "World News Tonight" resorted to handwriting and typing up copy on typewriters to supplement working computers, spokeswoman Cathie Levine said.

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[On the Road]

1. That Headline Was Not Written by an English Major

(or maybe it was) :smoke:

[Nomad559]

2. Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en

:)

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Thanks for posting links. A lot of people don't know about them. Just ran

it, I'm clean!

[jim3775]

3. the strangest thing about this is that...

the worm and IRC bots are battling with each other.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000631
"For the last four days we got 11 different samples of malware using this vulnerability. Currently there are three Zotob variants (.A, .B and .C), one Rbot (.YK), one Sdbot (.ADB), one CodBot, three IRCbots (.ES, .ET and .EX) and two variants of Bozori (.A, .B).

Variants from both IRCBot and Bozori families are deleting competing PnP bots.

It seems there are two groups that are fighting: IRCBot and Bozori vs Zotobs and the other Bots.

See our high-tech illustration for details."