Zotob virus not hitting many websites, says Netcraft |
One major symptom is a machine that just keeps rebooting itself. The only machine we have running Windows 2000 got hit with Zotob earlier today. I got called into action to dispatch it earlier. 
The worm, which uses a vulnerability in Windows PnP to target Windows 2000 machines, knocked computers offline at CNN, ABC News and the New York Times. The damage appears to be limited to internal corporate networks, as the web sites of the U.S. Fortune 100 show no unusual outages, including the 18 companies in the index hosted on Windows 2000.
Fix: Boot in safe mode with networking, get the Microsoft update. Apply it and rock and roll. Grrr.
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[…] Turkey and Morocco authorities assisted with Microsoft investigators and the FBI in locating two suspects believed to be responsible for the recent Zotob virus that was causing constant reboots on computers worldwide. via earthtimes: … FBI chasing an electronic trail that has lead to two youngsters faraway in the Middle East and North Africa. It is believed that 18-year old Moroccan Farid Essebar wrote the Zotob viral program in return for a payment offered by the 21-year old Turk Atilla Ekici, after meeting him over the Internet. Yesterday both were arrested and now await prosecution in their respective countries. […]
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