"Slammer," "Melissa," and "Goner worm" are all examples of:
A) viruses damaging the Internet.
B) politically sensitive products.
C) third-world diseases.
D) hackers intent on attacking multinational businesses.
E) new video games espousing Internet crime.

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The Melissa virus and the denial of service (DoS) attacks that overloaded the websites of CNN, ZDNet, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com with a flood of electronic messages, crippling them for hours, were considered purposeful attacks on specific targets. The "Slammer" brought Internet service to a crawl. It doubled its numbers every 8.5 seconds during the first minute of its attack and infected more than 75,000 hosts within 10 minutes. After infecting hundreds of thousands of computers in Europe and North America, the "Goner worm" traveled to Australia overnight and brought down government agencies, financial and manufacturing sites, and at least 25 MNCs.

"Slammer," "Melissa," and "Goner Worm" Are All Examples Of