Virus-like attack slows Web traffic

"Many Internet users experienced a sharp slowdown in traffic during Saturday’s early morning hours, as a fast-spreading Internet worm overwhelmed the world’s digital pipelines. The worm, which is being called both “Slammer” and “Sapphire” doesn’t attack typical home computers — instead it attacks machines running database software from Microsoft called SQL Server. At one point, the worm attack was so bad it caused most of Bank of America’s ATM machines to go offline, the company said."