My intention is not to draw attention to something that's not a virus, ... We want people to know what's critical or crucial or something they need to be aware of, versus something that's ordinary.
If you discover it, it won't let you get rid of it by just shutting it off,
I love my job, ... It's definitely what we live for. Most of these people are hard-core anti-virus people. A lot of them eat, sleep, and breathe these sort of things.
We're developing technology that will eventually end up in our products as they are today,
It corrupts data so it's not usable, but we have developed a cleaner to cope with this,
If it were to really kick in, it could get worse than the fury of Melissa, ... Because it's everybody in every single address book that you have.
It's pretty nasty what it does in there. Your machine will just lock up and will not be usable.
This is a very sophisticated virus written by a knowledgeable person familiar with business processes, ... It's the first NT-hosted virus we've seen, and the virus uses the network to spread into the NT programs.
The virus emulates a network administrator and gives itself as many rights as it can.
We are surprised sometimes that people have not updated their software in a year,