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Microsoft Blocks Second Wave of Attacks by Blaster Computer Worm.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 16--TOKYO--Microsoft Corp. engineers successfully managed to avoid a second wave of attacks from the Blaster computer worm, which has infected more than 250,000 computers worldwide, computer experts said Saturday.
The worm was programmed to use the infected computers to bombard Microsoft's Windows Update Web site from the stroke of midnight in each country Saturday. The attacks were intended to fling a huge amount of data at the site that helps Windows users protect their machines from computer viruses.
Microsoft experts have taken measures to protect the site by revising data on a server the worm was to target, said Masakazu Takahashi, an official at the Japan...
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