1. Computer virus
However, virus and worms has been criticized many software vendors, internets server and end users over the period of decades. ... It was a high risk mass-mailing worm flooding email servers worldwide. ... This worm does not infect typical end user machines at all .Therefore, it only infects computers running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000. The worm generates massive amounts of network packets, overloading servers and routers and slowing down network traffic. According to the reports, it was randomly as 5 of the 13 internet root name servers were down because of this during occurring...
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