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The SQL slammer worm is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05:30 UTC on January 25, 2003. It spread rapidly, infecting most of its 75,000 victims within ten minutes. W3 Media's Senior Web Developer and Technical Manager Ben Koshy has been credited with being the first person to identify the so-called 'Slammer' virus. Although titled "SQL slammer worm", the program did not use the SQL language; it exploited two buffer overflow bugs in Microsoft's flagship SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products, for which patches had been released six months earlier in MS02-039 and MS02-061. Other names include W32.SQLExp.Worm, DDOS.SQLP1434.A, the Sapphire Worm, SQL_HEL, W32/SQLSlammer and Helkern.

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SQL slammer worm

The SQL slammer worm is a computer virus (technically, a computer worm) that caused a denial of.... Although titled "SQL slammer worm", the program did not use the SQL language; it exploited two... W32.SQLExp.Worm, DDOS.SQLP1434.A, the Sapphire Worm, SQL_HEL, and W32/SQLSlammer. Impact Sites monitoring the...

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Dabber

Dabber is a computer worm that spreads through a vulnerability found in the Sasser worm...

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Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms

worms. January 24: The SQL slammer worm attacking Microsoft SQL Server causes widespread problems on... This is a list of noteworthy computer viruses and worms. 2004 early May: the Sasser worm emerges... and the Blaster worm begin to attack millions of Microsoft Windows computers, resulting in the...

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Microsoft SQL Server

of SQL Server Express is now available for download. Slammer Worm A computer worm, named the SQL slammer worm, which exploits a security vulnerability in this system was discovered in January, 2003... Microsoft SQL Server is a database management system produced by Microsoft. It supports a dialect...

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Doomjuice

Doomjuice is a variant of the Mydoom computer worm, in two variants known as Doomjuice.A or Doomjuice.B . It infects Microsoft Windows. The Doomjuice variants are currently spreading to computers... computers are not at risk for infection by Doomjuice...

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Mimail

Mimail is a computer worm which first emerged in August of 2003; it is transmitted via e-mail. Since its initial release, nearly two dozen variants of the original Mimail worm have appeared. The Mydoom worm, which emerged in January 2004, was initially believed to be a variant of Mimail...

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List of Internet topics

�� Sohonet — Spamming — SPX — Spyware — SQL slammer worm — SSH — Stateful firewall — Stateless... routing — Code Red worm — Communications protocol — Component object model — Computer — Computer addiction — Computer-assisted language learning — computer network — Computer worm �...

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Bagle worm

Bagle is a computer worm affecting Microsoft Windows. The first strain, Bagle.A , did not propagate widely. A second variation, Bagle.B is considerably more virulent. Bagle is a mass-mailing worm. It copies itself to the Windows system directory (Bagle.A as bbeagle.exe , Bagle.B as au.exe ) and...

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Hybris

known as Snow White, Vecna.22528, and Full Moon, is a computer worm believed to be written by Brazillian virus writer Vecna, member of the computer virus writing group 29A. It first appeared in... Register: "Vandals behind spread of Hybris worm named...

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Robert Tappan Morris, Jr.

for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. Morris created the worm while he was a graduate student at Cornell University. The original intent, according to him, was to gauge the size of the Internet. However, the worm spread rapidly, infecting several...

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