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NIMDA virus costly to fix, in time and money.

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM)

| September 20, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Albuquerque Tribune. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678

Yet another faceless villain has tormented the world this week.

The NIMDA virus, which has affected many computer-users since Tuesday, is an unusually robust and prolific attacker that has crashed servers, cost companies untold man-hours and slowed traffic over the entire Internet.

The ripple effect could be felt in Albuquerque, where some Internet hosting companies had to take their customers' Web sites offline. Internet-related companies have kept employees working constantly through the past two nights.

"It's very demoralizing dealing with transparent terrorists," said Jackie Fewell, president of Net//works!, a local Web hosting and services company.

"There's no …

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