Attack Of The World Wide Worms

How a series of prolific viruses clogged computer networks, bared the vulnerability of the Internet and showed the cracks in Windows

Where's A power outage when you really need one? Last Friday computer cops and the FBI were racing against time to shut down 20 computers--in a world of millions--before a restless piece of software code called Sobig.F reached them first. Sobig.F was already ripping through home PCs and business networks like Godzilla on a Tokyo rampage. If you logged on to the Internet last week, chances are you received an email from Sobig.F. Whatever instructions the worm might have got from those 20 Internet servers, investigators knew, had the potential to make Sobig.F so much bigger.

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