They rate of it is quite surprising. By the description, the trick / method of infection does not seem all that different than past worms viri. Makes me wonder how many people in a room would reach into their purse/pocket on hearing, "Wallet inspector"
Try and comprehend the typical home user, with no experience reading what appears to be an email from a friend or a relative. It happens. I had a friend who sent me a virus (unknowingly of course), that went to three different accounts that fall into the same mutt directory. When I inspected it, I gave the friend a call and notified them of the virus, and according to them, they only thing they received was a weird message from someone they knew. This was a fairly smart person, albeit comp illiterate. Someone working in the field (comp/networking) is almost always going to point out a flaw with someone not knowing, but the majority of those who get infected don't even know they're infected. Who do you blame them? I blame those whose OS coding is (excuse the term) crappy (security wise) in the sense it would allow 1) viruses to replicate as such, secondly I do put some blame on the provider for not filtering outbound data (silly pseudo spoofing). Just my two cents which obviously have declined with the economy =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal J. Oquendo GPG Key ID 0x51F9D78D Fingerprint 2A48 BA18 1851 4C99 CA22 0619 DB63 F2F7 51F9 D78D http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x51F9D78D sil @ politrix . org http://www.politrix.org sil @ infiltrated . net http://www.infiltrated.net