A rapidly spreading computer worm on Saturday infested networks and bogged down Internet traffic across the globe, crippling online services in one of the world's most wired countries, South Korea. Called "Sapphire" or "SQL Slammer," the worm carries a self-regenerating mechanism that enables it to multiply quickly across the Internet, said Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research at F-Secure, the Helsinki-based computer security firm. "It is so good at replicating that it generates massive amounts of traffic that will slow down networks," Hypponen said. "The end user never sees it. They only experience the slowdown on the Net."
Cheeze. This is all we need. And yesterday I got a got an e-mail from webmaster@arab.de. Norton cleaned the virus off for me, though... |