Computer virus hits U.S. media outlets

An unidentified software virus was being blamed for computer system outages on Tuesday at ABC News, CNN and the New York Times, as computer security companies tried to pin down the cause of the disruption. CNN, breaking into regular programming, reported on air that personal computers running Windows 2000 at the cable news network were affected by a worm that caused them to restart repeatedly. Over the last week, Microsoft Corp. and security companies warned of a new worm, called “Zotob,” that could allow an attacker to access PCs by exploiting a recently discovered flaw in Windows 2000. But security software company McAfee Inc. and Microsoft said that they did not see any heightened activity from Zotob on Tuesday.

Source: Reuters

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