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Story: Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability

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Posted by: gareth25 (Wednesday 7 January 2009, 11:01 PM)

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I have first hand experience with this worm...

The connections it made outbound crashed the firewall and brought the Internet down constantly...

It's not exactly a one click removal either!

Please PATCH YOUR SYSTEMS NOW!

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