By enabling an infected machine to be remotely controlled, this threat opens up the user's identity and computer for potentially malicious purposes.
This is a relatively old vulnerability.
Our job is not to drop anything.
Are we still at the leading edge of this threat? ... I mean, is it a fringe thing, or are we seeing it accelerate?
What we are saying is that attackers are increasingly targeting your assets and your private information.
It's designed to get people's anxieties up, ... Hoaxes spread very rapidly, using psychology to spread the information from computer to computer. It clogs up e-mail servers and e-mail boxes. [Users] are never quite sure what's secure what's not secure.
It's not dangerous in a sense that it's data destructive.
We determined that a significant amount of these were new machines that were Christmas gifts going online and not getting security patches onto them.
Each company has a different view of the world, ... That's why we try to have ratings based on the virus itself.
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