More - Mikko Hypponen Quotes

We have listed URLs that we are recommending systems administrators block. We don't recommend blocking the whole domain, as 99 percent of the pages on these free Austrian and German domains are OK. You should just block the problem URLs.

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The worm can spread quite well once it finds its way beyond corporate firewalls.

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(The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We'd like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that's probably not true.

Mikko Hypponen

 Computers

We have seen dozens of different attacks using this vulnerability since Dec. 27. One exploits image files and tries to get users to click on them; another is an MSN Messenger worm that will send the worm to people on your buddy list, and we have seen several spam attacks.

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We learned of the scanning bug in early December, but because it affected a wide range of our products, we wanted to release a fix for all (of the affected versions) at once.

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Everybody would like to see the patch as soon as possible, but I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to test it thoroughly. However, if a widespread worm is found before next Tuesday, I do believe they will break the cycle and just release the patch.

Mikko Hypponen

 Blame

Everything would look fairly convincing if they did some surfing to check out the site before clicking on the link. But they would still get burned.

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It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.

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At the moment we are not aware of any attacks that would have used this vulnerability.

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It's really quite clever, ... It uses realistic file names and sends those to people you know. It's social engineering, just like we saw with Love Letter.

Mikko Hypponen

 Engineering