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InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Microsoft Rounds Up Posse to Nab Conficker In a worldwide effort to bring down what experts warn may be the worst malware now facing the Internet, big names from the computer industry, academia and law enforcement are teaming up to go after the Conficker worm.
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
PC Magazine October 14, 2003	The Lookout: Blaster and SoBig Move In The Blaster worm continued to tear through the Internet in August, followed almost immediately by an improved version of the SoBig worm, as security experts struggled to find and fix infected systems.
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CIO October 15, 2003 Paul Roberts	Virus Attacks What a month. Human frailty, spam and a dangerous Microsoft Windows vulnerability combined to produce four major Internet worm attacks in August. A rundown.
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer	What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses
InternetNews August 18, 2005 Tim Gray	Warily Watching Worm Variants Versions of the Zotob worm continue to slam corporate networks while security vendors and Microsoft play defense.
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.
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InternetNews August 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Zotob Targets Windows Update Laggards A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play code can wreak havoc on unpatched PCs.
InternetNews March 4, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Experts Warn Koobface Eying More Social Sites Malicious hackers are continuing their attacks on social networking sites, with a new variant of the Koobface worm now spreading its assault on a new crop of the popular sites.
PC World November 2005 Stuart J. Johnston	Attackers Exploit Bug in Windows 2000 New worms released within a week prior to Window's posting the patch... New patches for Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Reader.
PC World September 4, 2001 Kim Zetter	Did FBI Ignore Code Red Warning? Fast-spreading malicious worm may have had a less successful predecessor...
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PC World October 31, 2001 Sam Costello	Nimda Variant Spreads Across Net Virus author claims ownership rights and asserts name: 'CV'...
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MS to Help Zap Worms Automatically Microsoft is working on a plan to distribute worm removal tools within automatic updates by the end of this year.
PC World August 2, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Double Trouble: Code Red and Sircam Plagues Continue Computer users face high-profile threats from multiple sources...
InternetNews February 27, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Storm Trojan Takes Social Measures Storm Trojan uses Web mail, blogs and message boards as conduits for spreading malware code.
InternetNews January 16, 2008 Andy Patrizio	A Particularly Nasty Week For Malware From Excel to the revitalized Storm worm to a severe banking Trojan, it's enough to make you nostalgic for the days of BBSes.
PC World January 27, 2003 Williams et al.	Spread of Slammer Worm Slows Investigators are searching for the source of the worm that caused major disruptions to Internet service over the weekend.
PC World November 27, 2002 Paul Roberts	New E-Mail Worm Causing Severe Damage Winevar could delete all the files on a computer's hard drive, while also mocking the user.
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Alex Goldman	Microsoft: Majority of File Exploits Avoidable Microsoft's latest security report includes a new category of data with astonishing implications.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	New E-holiday Card Virus Surfaces A new worm has emerged that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Larry Seltzer	A Storm Blows Through the Web The Storm Worm virus is old news. Where is it now?
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InternetNews May 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Korgo Worm Targets LSASS Flaw The detection of a new network worm is a clear indication that users have still not applied Microsoft's MS04-011 update.
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InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
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PC World February 24, 2003 Tom Krazit	Lovgate.C Worm Crawls Across Web Leading antivirus vendors post inoculations for newest pest.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman	Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.
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PC World May 9, 2002 Brian Sullivan	'Cute' Trojan Horse Spreading by E-Mail Worm has been rated low risk, but could damage firewall and security programs on infected PCs...
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Nucci & Bannerman	Controlled Chaos We need to exploit the science of order and disorder to protect networks against coming generations of superworms.
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Science News August 25, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Squashing Worms A mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research has mathematically analyzed the question of which computers to patch first when a mutating worm is spreading through the Internet.
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