VIRUS ALERT: 'MSBlast' worm spreads around world


August 12, 2003



McAfee Security's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) has issued a medium risk virus alert for the 'MSBlast' virus.


The MSBlast worm has infected as many as 100,000 computers in the past 24 hours. The worm, which security experts believe started spreading early Monday, scans for vulnerable computers so widely that an unpatched Windows XP computer on the Internet could be infected in as little as 25 minutes.
Read more about the virus:
http://g.msn.com/0NL33936/24


Virus profile:
http://g.msn.com/0NL33936/22


Microsoft virus patch:
http://g.msn.com/0NL33936/23