16 September 2011

Memories of the Nimda virus | #Sophos #virus #cybersecurity

Editor's note - Ten years ago the Nimba virus hit the Internet.  Here is a good article taking us down memory lane to simpler times in Internet security.

Nimda storms the internet

Boy, did Nimda show itself. It could spread every-which-way, and it did: by sending itself out to your email contacts; by breaking into web servers and infecting files all over your website; by spreading automatically across your network; and by parasitically infecting existing programs on your hard disk.

Read full article: http://bit.ly/rgqdrd

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