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Sasser Infection Plateaus, Drops: Page 2 of 2

As predicted a day before, security analysts on Wednesday watched the Sasser worm attack level off. "Sasser has plateaued," said Alfred Huger, the senior director of engineering with Symantec's response team. On Tuesday, Huger predicted that the worm's growth curve...
May 06, 2004

However, both Huger and Kuo said that while Sasser's growth is slowing, businesses and consumers shouldn't drop their guard, or fail to patch still-vulnerable systems.

"Sasser will be part of the Internet background for months to come," said Kuo.

And there's more cherry news in the future. The next scheduled roll-out of Microsoft vulnerabilities -- "Black Tuesday," as it's called by some security experts, since the Redmond, Wash.-based developer uses the second Tuesday of each month to post patches -- is just six days away.

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