By Joey Gardiner, 9 November 2001 15:50
NEWS Isolated reports suggest the Nimda worm may be rearing its ugly head again - despite patches for all variants being available for weeks. Graham Cluley, senior research analyst at anti-virus firm Sophos, said the new variant of Nimda was probably the biggest virus in the wild at present. He said: "Lots of people have been hit by this. It's too early to call, but this is probably the biggest threat at the moment, bigger than Sircam." The comments follow reports from the US that large institutions have been struck by the virus this week. Federal Courts in Florida were reduced to paper-based working after the worm struck their offices Monday. Representatives insist court files were never put at risk. In addition, Atlanta-based bank SunTrust was hit by a worm thought to be Nimda earlier in the week. The bank refused to confirm a report in American Banker that the attack was from Nimda. New variants of Nimda - most notably Nimda-e - first emerged at the end of October, but the threat had been thought to be receding. However, despite the comments from Sophos, other anti-virus vendors dampened concerns. Symantec and Network Associates both said that while they had seen isolated incidents of the virus in recent days, they saw no sign of a renewed spike in activity.
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