Customer: Waiter theres a worm in my soup.
Bill Gates: Thats no worm, thats an undocumented feature!
While April is the cruelest month, August may be worse. August was a bad month for Microsoft. Its secure computing initiative hasnt seemed to stop the flow of malicious viruses and worms that exploit vulnerabilities in MS operating systems. The guns of August were led by the MS Blaster worm, which quickly was followed by the W32/Sobig Worm. The latter is not a true worm in that it requires a user to execute the payload. (Actually, it also can be executed by an e-mail client that is configured to open an attachment automatically. You might as well set your doorbell always to unlock and open the front door.) Blaster can spread itself without active human intervention (unless you consider neglect to be intervention).
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