UK News 19-09-2001 who: Computer security experts what: Report appearance of dangerous new email virus where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Reports of the worm, known as Nimda, were being received from all over the world by computer security experts in Britain who recorded more than 45,000 cases in five hours," reports the Guardian. The worm, similar to the earlier Code Red virus, is thought to be the fastest spreading virus to date. It arrives in email without a subject line and containing an attachment: "readme.exe". A patch for the virus is available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/ [... more]

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