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

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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.

Author: Stuart Turton