Zotob Worm Forks Into a Dozen Variants: Security firms first spotted the emergence of the Zotob worm this past Sunday, and by Wednesday it's classified as the fastest-spreading Windows computer virus ever. Some dozen variants have emerged. Unpatched Windows98, Windows ME, Windows2000 and WindowsXP computers are vulnerable. Macintosh computers are immune. Zotob is a "network worm," meaning it can spread to vulnerable computers without any action on the part of the computer user, other than connecting to the Internet. Many businesses were hit by this virus, including CNN, ATT and SBC. The attacking worms leave computers open to remote takeover by malicious automated agents -- denial-of-service attacks or spam-zombie servers -- as well as potential data loss. [Business Week and SANS Internet Storm Center]
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One Thousand Switcher Stampede: News of the Henrico County School District's $50 iBook sale gained international attention when price-conscious switchers stampeded the sales hall for the chance to snap up the Mac OS X consumer laptops at bargain basement prices. Which was dumber: selling the iBooks so cheap or switching to all Dell laptops instead of Apple? [BBC News via MyAppleMenu]
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