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    Slammer Worm – Worst Virus in Over a Year

    On Saturday Jan 25th a new computer worm rocketed around the world disrupting hundreds of thousands of systems and slowing Internet traffic to a crawl. The latest virus called the Slammer or Sapphire worm transmitted thousands of packets (large bundled amounts of information) from infected systems, taking advantage of a known software flaw in Microsoft SQL Server.

    January, 2003