This paper will examine the Nimda worm to identify what makes it different from other types of malicious code. It will then present the current fixes available for the worm as well as some recommendations for protecting against further infections by similar types of malicious code.
On September 18, 2001 a number of sites noticed greatly increased traffic on port 80. This was the first indication of a new worm or virus spreading throughout the Internet. The Nimda worm spread very rapidly infecting a large number of computers around the world in a very short period of time. The majority of sites returned to near normal traffic in a few days. The Nimda worm should have taught us a few lessons. Let's hope we learned the lessons well. What made the Nimda worm different from other worms that have been in circulation lately? Why was this any different or more harmful than the others? Why was it able to spread so rapidly?
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