<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Virus Site</title></head><body> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066">List,</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066">Here's a link for more information about a virus (worm) that actually ISN'T a hoax.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066">Avery</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066" >http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa091801a.htm?PM=n10091801b</font ></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066">A quote from the site:</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#330066"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000">>Breaking out simultaneously throughout the world on Sept 18, 2001, a</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000">>mass-mailing email worm began actively launching a Distributed Denial of</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000">>Service (DDoS) attack across the Internet. Dubbed W32/Nimda.a@mm</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000">>by most antivirus vendors (the exception is McAfee who refers to it as >W32/Minda@mm) the worm spreads itself via email, taking advantage of</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000"> >security vulnerabilities to automatically execute on the user's system.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div> </body> </html>