Game Companies Suffer Virus Attack

Oct 27, 2006
Sectors: Online Games
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A number of online games were recently attacked by eight viruses, which created large losses for the game companies, ZDNet China reports. The attacked online games include The9's (Nasdaq: NCTY) World of Warcraft (WoW), Shanda's (Nasdaq: SNDA) Legend of Mir 2, CDC Games' online game Yulgang, Lineage 2, Netease's Fantasy Westward Journey, Perfect World's Wu Lin Wai Zhuan and Tencent (0700.HK) and Domain Networks' HX II.

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Game Companies Suffer Virus Attack
October 27, 2006: A number of online games were recently attacked by eight viruses, which created large losses for the game companies, ZDNet China reports. The attacked online games include The9's (Nasdaq: NCTY) World of Warcraft (WoW), Shanda's (Nasdaq: SNDA) Legend of Mir 2, CDC Games' online game Yulgang, Lineage 2, Netease's Fantasy Westward Journey, Perfect World's Wu Lin Wai Zhuan and Tencent (0700.HK) and Domain Networks' HX II.

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