On September 18, 2001, another little unfriendly virus was introduced to the Information Technology (IT) world. The virus has been given the name W32.Nimda.A@mm ("Nimda" for short). Nimda is a mass-mailing worm that utilizes several methods to spread itself to multiple servers and personal computers. Nimda not only infects PCs running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2000, but also servers running Windows 2000. Nimda caused massive traffic across the Internet resulting in slowdowns as it attacked computers and created a ripple effect. The virus invaded computers using e-mail clients and containing Microsoft's Web Server, Internet Information Server (IIS). The purpose of Nimda appears to be the traffic slowdown itself. In other words, Nimda does not appear to destroy files or cause damage to the system except for the considerable amount of time that may be lost to the slowing or loss of traffic through denial-of-service.
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