Nachi Worm undoes Blaster.The new Nachi worm worm, common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, or the flatworms, are the most primitive; they are generally small and flat-bodied and include the free-living planarians (of (W32/Nachia-A, also known as Welchia or Welchi) attempts to remove the Blaster worm as well as patch vulnerable Microsoft computers against a critical security hole to prevent reinfection reinfection /re·in·fec·tion/ (-in-fek´shun) a second infection by the same agent or a second infection of an organ with a different agent. re·in·fec·tion n. . Taking advantage of the same critical security hole in Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. which was exploited by the Blaster worm, Nachi searches for unpatched computers. Once located, it infects the computer without asking the user's permission and hunts for traces of the Blaster worm. If it is found, the Nachi worm attempts to remove the infection and download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. patches to fix the Microsoft vulnerability. Details of the Nachi worm can be found at http://.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32nachia.html |
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