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Overview of Nimda

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Overview of Nimda (PDF, 1.65MB)Published: 01 Oct, 2001
Created by:
John Phillips

A system administrator's perspective on Nimda to describe how the worm attacked, why the vulnerabilities existed and what could be done to prevent future infections.