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The popular "Second Life" virtual world and game shut down for a brief time Sunday so administrators could clean up a worm attack dubbed "gray goo."

"An attack of self-replicators is causing heavy load on the database, which is in turn slowing down in-world activity," the official Linden Lab blog read at 2:44 p.m. (PST) Sunday. "We have isolated the grey goo and are currently cleaning up the grid."

Twenty-three minutes later, Linden shut down the site. "Log-ins will be closed to all except Linden staff while we finish cleaning up the aftermath of the grey goo attack." The site was unavailable for less than 15 minutes. Worm Knocks ‘Second Life’ Offline - News by InformationWeek