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Microsoft Shuts Site to Foil 'Blaster' Worm Attacks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Kim Peterson, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 16--Microsoft permanently shut down a Web site critical to an attack expected to start today by the so-called "Blaster" worm that infected computers worldwide this week.
The company disabled the Web site www.windowsupdate.com late Thursday night. The worm had programmed infected computers to flood the site with traffic starting today in a denial-of-service attack aimed at disrupting Microsoft's operations.
It's been a rough week for Microsoft. The Blaster worm, also known as LovSan, hit hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of computers this week, exploiting a security flaw in the Windows operating system. Consumers and businesses that had not downloaded a...
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