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First-Ever NT Server Virus Calls for Extra Vigilance.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)

By Dietz, Lawrence D.
Publication: Internet World
Date: Monday, January 11 1999

Lawrence D. Dietz is director, information security and legal strategies, for Sterling, Va., consulting firm Current Analysis. This is the first of his biweekly columns for Internet World. Contact him at ldietz@iw.com.

FOR TOO LONG the end user community has assumed that most virus activity would reside in the Unix world. But the debut on Nov. 19, 1998, of a virus called Remote Explorer--the first known virus to attack Windows NT servers--should make every user take notice.

NT is the operating system of choice for most Internet servers. It is also the touch-

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