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Cnet.com: Old-School Worm Loves Windows Applications

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 07/08/2004 - 2:00am

This newest iteration of the Lovgate worm is really nasty -- when it infects a Windows-based machine, it replaces all of the executable files (the files that make your applications run) with copies of itself. That renders the computer effectively useless. Read the full story.