Protect yourself from Email Worm Attack - 0 views
-
abigail caitlin on 04 Jun 09Breaking out simultaneously throughout the world on Sept/19/01, a mass-mailing email worm began actively launching a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack across the Internet. Dubbed W32/Nimda.a@mm by most antivirus vendors (the exception is McAfee who refers to it as W32/Minda@mm) the worm spreads itself via email, taking advantage of security vulnerabilities to automatically execute on the user's system.