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Article: Zotob fizzles while new worm emerges.
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- Network World
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- August 22, 2005
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Byline: John Fontana
Was it the worm that wasn't or the worm that was?
That seemed to be the big question last week when the Zotob worm appeared just three days after Microsoft released patch MS05-039
to close a vulnerability in the plug-and-play feature in various flavors of the Windows operating system, with Windows 2000
the most vulnerable.
Early reports indicated that the worm could be ready to bust out and make Sasser, which at one point during its 2004 rage
raised Internet traffic 40%, look like a non-event. By the end of last week, Zotob and its seven variants proved they had