Topic: COMPUTER - on July 13, 2004 at 10:41:00 PM CEST
Worm sleeps to avoid detection
The latest mass-mailing worm, Atak, hides by going to sleep when it suspects that antivirus software is trying to detect it.
Atak was first discovered Monday. Although antivirus companies do not expect it to cause much damage, they say it will be a nuisance because it can generate a large amount of spam.
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