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Catastrophic virus outbreaks had long been based on security holes in Windows, like last August’s Blaster worm. Current virus writers have realized that while security holes are fleeting, user gullibility is forever. This gullibility has enabled an international hacker war fought with all the drama of daytime television and all the maturity of an adults-only AOL chatroom infiltrated by sixth-graders...
...same could be said for vulnerabilities to the computers we depend on. Families must guard their computers against novice vandals planting viruses or against more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept at lifting valuable, private information and extorting money with it. The Federal Government and key industries...
...million Amount set aside by Microsoft to reward people who inform on hackers. The company is offering a $250,000 bounty on those responsible for the Sobig and Blaster computer viruses...
Since the Blaster worm causes infected computers to successively reboot, Davis said, he does not anticipate hesitation among affected users to use the patch...
...With Blaster, if your machine has it, you’ll know it, and if you get symptoms, it’s pretty clear you have to run this tool,” he said...