{"id":131,"date":"2005-08-16T02:28:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-08-16T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T19:31:07","slug":"zotob-worm-hits-windows-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/zotob-worm-hits-windows-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotob worm hits Windows users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Internet worm has been detected that can infect Microsoft&#8217;s Windows platforms faster than previous computer worms, according to an antivirus software maker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Zotob worm appeared shortly after the world&#8217;s largest software maker warned of three newly found &#8220;critical&#8221; security flaws in its software, including one that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest worm exploits security holes in Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 95, 98, ME, NE, 2000 and XP platforms and can give computer attackers remote access to affected systems, said Trend Micro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hundreds of infection reports were sighted in the United States and Germany,&#8221; Tokyo-based Trend Micro said in a statement released late last week.<\/p>\n<p>=>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-5832849.html?tag=zdnn.alert\">click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zotob worm appeared shortly after the world&#8217;s largest software maker warned of three newly found &#8220;critical&#8221; security flaws in its software, including one that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}