Summer of worms

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Summer of 2003 in the media was advertised as the summer of worms, a term still recurring in computer virus related news articles remembering one of the darkest hours for Microsoft computer security credibility in the last years. The concurrent spread of three different worms: Blaster, Welchia, and SoBig caused problems for thousands of users worldwide and a considerable amount of stress on sys-admins and patch-writers alike.

Years later, in retrospective, it is well considered as a test Microsoft systems faced, and passed; making the vendor achieve faster reaction times when holes needs to be patched and leaving the general public with a higher concern for security problems.

[edit] See also

• Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms

[edit] External References

• A CNN transcript from August 2003 citing the summer of worms,
• A 2006 article from the Register (echoed from Security Focus) citing the summer of worms in retrospective