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Windows 2000 bug starts virus war

A war has broken out between hackers behind viruses that exploit a recently discovered loophole in Windows 2000.

The viruses written by the competing hacker groups are fighting it out for supremacy on infected machines.

Some of the variants seek out and delete rival viruses they find on machines they manage to penetrate.

The slew of malicious programs exploiting the loophole caused trouble for many organisations early this week as the bugs began infecting computers.

War zone

A patch for the vulnerability is being exploited by the 11 viruses turned out by the rival groups was released on 9 August and code to exploit it appeared only a few days later. The weakness occurs in the Plug-and-Play component of Windows 2000. If you are running Windows XP you will not have a problem with these viruses.

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