New Storm Worm Outbreak Blasting The Internet

Vikingod · Apr 13, 2007, 01:45 PM

Source: InformationWeek
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The virulent Storm worm that blasted its way across the Internet in January has reared its ugly head again.

A variant of the Storm worm hit hard in a widespread spam campaign on Thursday. The Internet Storm Center reported detecting at least 20,000 infections today. Patrick Martin, a senior product manager with the Security Response Team at Symantec, said they received several hundred reports of the malicious e-mail making the rounds.

"This is potentially a huge problem," said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute and chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center. "It's basically impossible to shut this thing down.... And once a user is infected, it's very hard to get rid of it. They would probably have to reinstall their system."

Apr 13, 2007, 01:45 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	New Storm Worm Outbreak Blasting The Internet Source: InformationWeek _________ The virulent Storm worm that blasted its way across the Internet in January has reared its ugly head again. A variant of the Storm worm hit hard in a widespread spam campaign on Thursday. The Internet Storm Center reported detecting at least 20,000 infections today. Patrick Martin, a senior product manager with the Security Response Team at Symantec, said they received several hundred reports of the malicious e-mail making the rounds. "This is potentially a huge problem," said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute and chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center. "It's basically impossible to shut this thing down.... And once a user is infected, it's very hard to get rid of it. They would probably have to reinstall their system."