A malicious computer worm, which has already infected potentially millions of computers around the world, could cause major cyber headaches on April 1, say computer experts.

In Canada, the worm was detected and quickly eliminated on computer systems at Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, the Quebec Ministry of Transportation and at some Ontario court offices.

The worm, which spreads by copying itself through the internet defaces web pages and can cause outages. It's able to take advantage of a security weakness in Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows ...

Second, the worm contains a so-called Trojan Horse. This is an attached program that recognizes the Internet addresses of financial institutions on its list of targets.

The worm, which spreads through the Internet and corporate networks, affects users of Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express by sending copies of itself to addresses found in those programmes.

By: IE Staff August 18, 2003August 18, 2003 07:35 IE Staff “Microsoft Corp. appeared to outfox the creators of a computer worm that last week infected hundreds of thousands of computers, limiting ...