Unlike other worms and viruses, Nimda is capable of spreading via network-based e-mail as well as by Web browsers. There appears to be no evidence the worm is linked to the recent terrorist attacks on the U.S., the statement said. Many sites are also experiencing high volumes of e-mail and network traffic as a result of this worm, according to a joint statement from CERT, the SANS Institute and the Information Technology Association of America. The worm has been found to clog part of the Internet, slowing down or even stopping Web traffic for some users. The Nimda worm, reports of which first began flooding into mailing lists and security firms on Tuesday morning (see story), is a mass-mailing piece of malicious code that infects systems running Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000. "The newness of this is that it leverages a number of different vulnerabilities in order to propagate itself," Householder said.
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