SG News: Nearly 9 Million PCs Hit By 'Downandup' Worm

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Nearly 9 Million PCs Hit By 'Downandup' WormThe network worm is a bunch of malware variants that target older Windows machines and changes itself, or is changed by its authors, to prevent signature-based detection. A network worm has been spreading rapidly across the Internet over the past week, despite an emphatic warning from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) last October.In October, Microsoft took the unusual step of issuing an out-of-band Security Bulletin, MS08-067, for a vulnerability affecting its Server ...

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