Nimda is a worm that was discovered on September 18th 2001 and it was estimated that it infected 2.2 million Servers and PC’s by September 21st. The cost for clean up from infection is estimated to be somewhere North of 530 million by Computer Economics 2. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the main methods that Nimda spreads, to share effective ways to prevent the spread of Nimda and to express that a holistic approach is needed to prevent the propagation and spread of recently developed worms. In the past, Virus propagation and spreading was dealt with by pure anti-virus products. Nimda introduced for the first time widely, a complex, multi-pronged threat that needs to be dealt with via a holistic approach. It is an approach that will favor the security teams that can effectively integrate multiple tools to deal with the multiple vectors of infection.
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