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Chapter 12 - Virus Attacks
Exposure to Viruses
Tom was exhausted. The extended business trip
had done its work, and drained him completely. He knew this would
happen; these trips always had that effect on him, but he had
learned to live with it. This time, however, it was more. His
flight had been delayed, and the airport was now his one star hotel
for the night. He tried to call home and let his wife know that he
would be late, but his cell phone went on the blink as he tried and
it did not recover. Stranded and frustrated, Tom decided to get
some cash from the ATM machine for dinner at a vendor’s stand. No
luck, his transaction was denied. This was getting weird. There
was no way that account was empty; he knew this to be a fact. A day
late, hungry and broke, Tom arrived at home and discovered he could
thank a computer virus for his trouble. Now, Tom was angry.
The consequences of a virus attack can be
dramatic, making headlines in the papers or leading off the evening
newscast. Less dramatically but even more frustrating, virus
attacks can wreak a wide range of havoc on individual computers and
result in the loss of work, or worse.
“The attack came swiftly and without warning.
At 12:30 a.m. eastern standard time, January 25th, a single packet
of data containing the Slammer worm began spreading across the
Internet. Within 10 minutes, the worm reached 90 percent of the Net
and infected more than 75,000 machines. At its peak 30 minutes
later, it disrupted one out of five data packets. The result:
service blackouts, canceled flights, and disabled ATMs.”
Excerpted from May 2003 issue of PC World
magazine
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