Forwarded from: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, InfoSec News wrote:
> Network Associates called it "Minda." Central Command originally called
> it "ConceptV5." But blame the ungainly name that stuck "Nimda" - on one
> of the first virus researchers to capture a copy of the malicious code.
Maybe it's because I'm mildly dyslexic that it was apparent from
the git-go that "Nimda" was simply "Admin" backwards. I felt that the
name was appropriate. It shows that the worm is only possible because
most admin types are the opposite of what they should be.
Nufsed.
- -Jay
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Received on Sun Sep 23 10:21 CDT 2001