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Worm turns on Japanese Windows

Feb 13, 2004 1:06AM PST

Latest Nachi varient has political motive?

A new variant of the Nachi worm has emerged that is apparently sending a political message to computers running Japanese versions of Windows.

Nachi.B, discovered on Wednesday, has attacked only a small number of computers so far and is less troublesome than its predecessor. But unlike the earlier Nachi worm, which took down computer networks, this version seems politically motivated, security experts said on Thursday.

http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39118388,00.htm

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