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Article: Cybertrust research illustrates worldwide impact of Zotob worm.
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- October 26, 2005
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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2005-CYBERTRUST: Cybertrust research illustrates worldwide impact of Zotob worm(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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London - Cybertrust, the global information security specialist, today announced the results of its study of 700 enterprises on the impact of the Zotob worm to organisations worldwide. Zotob adversely impacted systems running Microsoft Windows 2000 in mid-August 2005, disrupting many high-profile organisations as it congested networks with worm traffic and caused emergency patch deployments.
"Cybertrust's study on the Zotob worm demonstrated that, compared to earlier worm outbreaks such as SQL Slammer or Sasser, ...