"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>
> All the big names are there - Byte Bandit, Chynoble, Melissa, Code Red,
> SQL Slammer, Sobig, Sober, MyDoom, MS Blaster, Klez, Nachi, etc. Plus
> there's a few I haven't even heard of. (Obviously most of these are PC
> viruses, and it wasn't until the late 90s that I started using that
> platform.)

The interesting (and unfortunate) thing about SQL Slammer is that the patch
that closed the exploit had been released a couple of months before the worm
appeared. The reason is was so widespread is that most organisations hadn't
bothered applying any service packs

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