The latest worm outbreak has many names, and it's a nasty one. It's scheduled to pillage its victim systems on the third of the month.

Name: Blackworm
Affects: Windows XP/XP SP2/2000/2003/NT/ME/98/95

For the most part, there's nothing all that special about this worm, other than the destructive behavior, the time bomb, and the fact that it uses an HTTP-based counter to keep track of how many copies of itself are up and running on the Internet.

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