CNET News.com: "A new worm initially thought to be pretty harmless ended up mutating into a series of worms that could shut down Windows PCs, leading some to believe that a war among hackers was to blame.
The original Zotob.A was unleashed over the weekend, wreaking relatively little havoc. As of Monday morning on the West Coast, the original worm had infected about 50 computers worldwide, and the first variant, Zotob.B, had compromised about 1,000 systems.
However, by Tuesday the worm had evolved into a greater annoyance, shutting down computers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. Computers across the United States were hit, including those at cable news station CNN, television network ABC and The New York Times. Symptoms of infection include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of a computer. "
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