The week in your words: Lawyers, 3dfx and malware

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 9 May 2008 at 16:53

Malware hits 500,000 computers in seven days

This week also brought news that a new piece of malware had managed to worm itself onto around 500,000 computers in just a week. McAfee described it as "relatively benign", milliganp ... didn't.

"So if I go into a shopping mall with a gun, as long as I fire in the air I can say my attack is 'relatively benign'! The internet needs to develop a zero-tolerance approach to malware and spam."

Quite what that zero-tolerance approach would entail we may never learn, but the idea of flooding their inboxes with some serious name calling quite appeals.

Churchcat found blame elsewhere: "Going to sites and downloading and running anything is surely folly," he notes, earning brownie points for letting us bow out with the word folly.

See you all next week.