Re: [ISN] 'Nimda' - Norwegian For 'Nasty'

From: InfoSec News (isnat_private)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 03:00:54 PDT

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    Forwarded from: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdysonat_private>
    
    
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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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