Mikko Hypponen Network Quotations

There appears to be three different virus writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate -- as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.