Greymage
Enlightened
I just read that an 18-year old German man was arrested as the author of the Sasser worm.
It's amazing that one teenager can cause so much trouble. Can you imagine a grown software engineer... out not to cause havoc but to steal or spy? Antivirus programs only protect against known viruses, i.e. those in the wild that the AV companies have samples for. A virus/worm using a new security hole (not that I think there are any left now that Microsoft has security as job #1 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hahaha.gif) and targeted to specific organizations or individuals would be hard to stop...
It's amazing that one teenager can cause so much trouble. Can you imagine a grown software engineer... out not to cause havoc but to steal or spy? Antivirus programs only protect against known viruses, i.e. those in the wild that the AV companies have samples for. A virus/worm using a new security hole (not that I think there are any left now that Microsoft has security as job #1 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hahaha.gif) and targeted to specific organizations or individuals would be hard to stop...