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2003-01-26-wellWrittenWorm

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 2351 days AGO

"Weighing in at 376 bytes of assembly language code, it is shorter than some email signature blocks. [...] It fits entirely within one UDP packet. The packet goes into a Microsoft SQL Server box, and boom, the machine turns into a zombie, spewing the same packet back out at random IP addresses, over and over and over and over, running in a tight 23-instruction loop, cycling fast enough to fill the network it's connected to with the tiny replicates of itself directed anywhere and everywhere on the net."