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Non Conventional Virus Attack Abstract Cyber-attack by means of non-conventional virus or worms adapted to the telecom world (SDH equipment, management networks, management systems, satellite receivers, etc.) could totally make unusable all the main networks of telecommunication of a country paralyzing the activity in critical sectors like electrical, audio-visual and the banking one at the same time (as long as this attack was planned and executed at the same time on all the networks. We present here a new vision in the existing threads regarding critical telecommunication infrastructures and Homeland Security Risks and Weakness in telecom networks Current Telecom Networks are based on hierarchic models beginning from the lower physical layer (optic fibre transport, microwave radio link, satellite, etc.). to higher layers (WDM networks, SDH networks, ATM networks, IP networks, etc). We can subdivide telecom existing networks of big operators, administrations and even defence networks of a country, in the following way: Physical Layer: Terrestrial Network. Fibre Network. Radio Network. Satellite Network. Capacity and Capillarity: Access Network. National Core Network. International Core Network. Technology hierarchy: WDM. SDH. ATM. IP. Supported customers: Residential. Business Sector: Electric Power. Banking. Media. Tertiary. ... Governmental. Technological updating rate: Legacy networks. New Generation Networks. Indeed, is this hierarchic model that does that a planned attack, with a sufficient knowledge (but not detailed) of a telecommunication network, and towards the point or critical points of a network can do that one after another one, these networks fall or limit their functionality until limits that can worsen crisis situations (for example during terrorist attacks, regional conflicts, floods, fires, etc.). We do not forget that most of the networks historically have grown on, or use partial or totally, other networks that to