Australia Holden Auto Plant affected by Zotob

Holden was forced to shut down its vehicle assembly plant in Adelaide for several hours on after its computer network was infiltrated by what was thought to be the Zotob virus. Holden said its systems were infiltrated early on Wednesday, 17 August 2005, and the company stopped production until lunchtime.

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According to report, Zotob affected various software programs at Holden, including those used to set up the computer chips in each car. Spokesman for Holden said the company would not comment on how the virus got into its computer network. Holden's computer technicians believed there were actually four or five different strains.

The Zotob virus or worm functions by installing a program inside a user's Windows system - namely Windows 2000. It then downloads a copy of itself and scans for other machines that do not have a security patch to block it. Once the worm finds another unprotected machine, the process repeats itself. Zotob also opens a back door to the user's PC and adds several lines of code into a machine to prevent it from accessing certain antivirus websites.

Updated On: 05.08.21