On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
"Even so, 300,000 infected users worldwide is not a terribly large amount when compared to previous worms like Sober or Mydoom. However, with this worm it isn't the quantity of infected users, it is the destructive payload which is most concerning."
Vmyths used to be a great source for debunking a lot of the virus hype. Everything old seems to be new again. In 1999, the Chernobyl virus was the end of the world. It erased disks and BIOS of computers.
Fast forward 2005. What is the proper response for a global impact of ~200K machines that may suffer data loss? I don't think that inter-continental mobilization is the answer. Wall Street may agree as well. AV and security companies gained nothing from this outbreak other than incurred operational expense - a data point to add to the "is the customer paying their fair share" argument. -M<