Latest Viruses are Hitting Companies Hard

, all of whom should have known better. From this ZDNet article, "MSBlast and its variants, and the Sobig.F virus, have disrupted several companies, including those responsible for critical parts of the United States' infrastructure:

• Defense contractor Lockheed Martin had less than 1 percent of its systems infected, but still had disruptions.

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology found its e-mail servers congested from the amount of messages created.

• Railway and frieghthauler CSX had to stop trains because of the Nachi worm, the Associated Press reported.

• Airline Air Canada canceled flights on Tuesday because its network couldn't deal with the amount of traffic generated by the Nachi worm.

• The Pentagon and military had myriad infections of the Sobig.F virus and the Nachi worm, various news agencies reported.

"The MSBlast worm also continued to have some unforeseen effects on non-Microsoft hardware." [Dana Baggett]