Jon-

You are correct that the worm is poorly written.  I don't agree that the
information surrounding the issue is "hype".  Many networks have been
impacted by ICMP storms related to the 300 threads per infected hosts
pinging and scanning like crazy. Nachi also has an entirely new exploit
vector in the WebDAV exploit.

One such report:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=1&u=/nm/2
0030819/tc_nm/airlines_aircanada_virus_dc

Regards,
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Daniel Ingevaldson
Engineering Manager, X-Force R&D
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Internet Security Systems, Inc.
The Power to Protect
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