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...virus that has crippled campus computer networks across the country has forced University officials to begin filtering e-mails in an unprecedented attempt to keep Harvard’s servers running...
Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services is universally deleting incoming e-mails infected with the Sobig.f virus...
Security experts are willing to cut Microsoft a lot of slack. In some ways, they say, Windows is a victim of its success. if rival operating systems like Linux or Mac OS had a 95% market share, the virus writers would be hard at work probing them for holes. Whether they would find as many is a different question altogether. Linux and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS are open source, which means they're subject to constant peer review by engineers and software writers all over the world. The energy that goes into finding fault with Windows exists...
...recently as two years ago, it was easy to avoid the impact of most viruses and worms like Melissa and the infamous Love Bug by not using too many Microsoft products. Most of the known security flaws that spurred virus writers had to do with the way Outlook talked to Word or Excel. The greatest danger was having a Microsoft monoculture on your desktop. The digital equivalent of planting only one kind of potato in your fields, it practically invited pests to do their worst...
...Jeffrey Lee Parson, American teen charged with spreading the MSBlast Internet virus...