Windows 2000 bug starts virus war
A virus war has broken out between the proud parents of the most recent Windows 2000 viruses that exploit a recently discovered loophole in the Plug-and-Play component. Some of the variants seek out and delete rival viruses they find on machines they manage to penetrate. This has happened before, but it is the first time that three groups of programmers so quickly.
“There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate,” said Mr Hypponen, “as if they were competing to build the biggest network of infected machines.” Variants of the Bozori and IRCbot viruses that exploit the Windows 2000 loophole will delete some of the Zotob, RDbot and SDbot virus programs if they find them on machines they manage to compromise.
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