Posted 9:41 AM

Vicious virus cycles

George Smith writes in SecurityFocus about the "Viral Opportunity" MSBlaster & SoBig have presented to us. Fighting virii (and worms) has evidently become "big stuff". So much so that the cure is becoming worse than the disease. Between the "good virus" (Naachi) and the anti-virus mail bouncing to forged addresses there's little bandwidth left - but Smith does have ideas on how to fill it!