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Offline polonus

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One person can wreak havoc for millions
« on: October 19, 2005, 11:43:53 PM »
Hello forum members,

An old worm from March 2004 is still widely spread on the Internet to-day. 15% of all the e-mail virus-worms recently found  are based on one and the  the same source code of a worm known as Netsky P. This virus and the related MyTob are based on the same  code from the same malcreant.
Just amazing that one person can wreak such havoc on millions of computers, also because some computer owners do little in the way of preventing the worm to spread further.

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