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Article: The conquered worm.(zotob conquered by Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
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- Accounting Today
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
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One of the most notable "emergency" Microsoft bugs fixed last year was the Zotob worm. The pesky Zotob wiggled its way into Windows 2000 users' computers through a vulnerability in the Plug and Play component, a feature that allows users to add devices without restarting their computer.
Users with Zotob-infected computers had malware - software designed to infiltrate and/or damage a computer system without the owner's consent - downloaded onto their PCs. The worm would then use the infected computer to find more PCs to infect.
The average cost to clean up the worm in an infected company's network averaged $97,000. Cybertrust, a global information ...