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Matthew Williamson is a senior research scientist with the Biologically Inspired Complex Adaptive Systems group, part of Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol, England. Williamson's work, which started in robotics, is part of a growing trend in IT to investigate how biology can be emulated in computing.

A just-completed study into the Slammer worm that hit the Internet a week ago has concluded what many people already suspected: Slammer represented a significant milestone in the evolution of worms and was by far the fastest spreading worm yet seen.

A just-completed study into the Slammer worm that hit the Internet a week ago has concluded what many people already suspected: Slammer represented a significant milestone in the evolution of worms and was by far the fastest spreading worm yet seen.

The attack of Slammer worm that hit thousands of network servers over the weekend is yet another example of companies not keeping virus defences up-to-date, according to security experts.

More than 48 hours since it first appeared, the spread of a new worm that targets servers running the Microsoft SQL Server database software had slowed and there had been no repeats of the major disruption caused to the Internet on Saturday.