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title: "Web 2.0 Worm Pandemic Threatens Internet"
date: 2005-10-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Web 2.0 Worm Pandemic Threatens Internet

![Web 2.0 Worm Pandemic](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003318im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/chicken.jpg)Today The Register’s [Andrew Orlowski gleefully reported](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315003318/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/17/web20_worm_knocks_out_myspaces/) the existence of the first “Web 2.0 worm”. Wrote our man in San Francisco: *“It’s been a rough weekend for Tomorrow’s People. A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first “Web 2.0 worm” knocked out MySpace.com – and the $500m-valued website, recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp – was still struggling to get back on its feet two days later.”*

What I want to know is – what happens if Romanian birds eat the Web 2.0 worms?

A predictable disaster. ®

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_worm_pan.php))*