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...always say, 'As far as we know,' no one has written a virus or worm that can bring down all the communications. But that opening disclaimer is very important." --Charles Palmer...
...Nabbing The Nerds Microsoft posted bounties of $250,000 on the heads of the creators of the Sobig.F virus and MSBlast worm that bugged millions of computers worldwide earlier this year...
...little over a decade later, we rely so heavily on the Internet—once quaintly likened to a freeway—that we are unable to appreciate the respite afforded us by the occasional traffic jam. When the SoBig worm had its way with our inboxes last month, many reacted with near-horror. I awoke one morning to find that a number of friends and family for whom e-mail is normally something like oxygen had despaired and gone underground—logging out for what seemed like the first time in years just to get away from...
...brand new machine could be plugged into the network, and within seconds, be infected by the Blaster worm,” he said. “Students should take this as an extremely serious threat. Everyone should go and run this tool...
Since the Blaster worm causes infected computers to successively reboot, Davis said, he does not anticipate hesitation among affected users to use the patch...