MS Blaster worm slams into cable.(Readers Weigh In)(the cable industry is affected by the MS Blaster worm)
Multichannel News, August, 2003 by Brown, Karen
The MS Blaster worm proved a vexing pest to cable data providers last week, generating a flood of calls to customer-service centers even as technicians scrambled to block the computer virus's spread throughout their networks. The worm--targeting a critical flaw in the Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000, windows XP, Windows NT and Windows Server 2003 operating systems--began hitting the Internet grid Aug.
11. HIGH-SPEED PROBLEM While not having the damaging impact of previous works such as Slammer on the Internet infrastructure, Blaster is bedeviling home computer users who didn't download a Microsoft software patch issued earlier this summer. Computers with always-on broadband connections are particularly vulnerable, given the virus is...
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