Worm's home ground may be Asia

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Some security experts are pointing to the Far East as the birthplace of the worm that wreaked havoc over the weekend on Internet servers worldwide.

The Sapphire worm--also known as Slammer and SQLExp--exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers and causes increased traffic between servers. The worm started spreading about 9:30 p.m. PST on Friday.

"The worm could have originated from Asia," Roy Ko, center manager for the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team, said in a e-mail interview.

"We started to notice heavy Internet traffic in Asia on Saturday afternoon before other parts of the world reported it," said Ko.

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