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Old 08-15-2003, 08:54 AM
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it's no big mystery how it "hacked" into the system. The virus takes advantage of a security hole in Win2k/XP by slipping through a port that is left open. (...more or less) So unless they have that port specifically closed off the virus will get through quite easily.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...ster.worm.html
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