News: Lethal worm spells double trouble — ‘A computer worm that spreads to both servers and PCs running Microsoft software

flooded the Internet with data Tuesday, but the FBI said that, as of yet, it sees no

link to last week’s terrorist attack.

Known as “Nimda” or “readme.exe,” the worm spreads by sending infected e-mail messages,

copying itself to computers on the same network, and compromising Web servers using Microsoft’s

Internet Information Server (IIS) software.

“It is extraordinary how much traffic this thing has created in a couple of hours,” said Graham Cluley,

senior security consultant for antivirus company Sophos. “As far as we can see, it doesn’t seem to

be using any psychological tricks because it’s all automated.” ‘ I thought things have been running abit slowly today, but I figured it was the increased traffic in the wake of the events of last week… ZDNet News