The destructive Nimda worm, which wrecked havoc on computer systems across the globe last month, has bred five variants the latest or which is out in the wild in Asia.
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Some people have suggested that antivirus companies, when issuing alerts about viruses and worms, use some sort of standard scale to tell us how dangerous each pest really is. Sorry, but that just won't work.
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