This is a very sophisticated worm with several new twists.

This is going to cause the meltdown of the Internet, the vulnerability that this worm is exploiting.

Our recommendation to our customers is to get patches applied within 90 days, because the normal mechanisms should prevent this from getting to your organization.

I have a lot of control from within my browser, such as Web proxies, but in mail, what controls do I have? ... I have nowhere near the same amount of security.

To check all those signatures may be cumbersome and not a quick fix, but it's a good idea.

If Microsoft's publicity of this update is successful, far too many consumers will believe they have received a comprehensive security update, ... This will make it significantly more difficult to convince them to take additional steps to secure themselves.

I don't think Windows is more or less secure than some other operating system, ... I think that there are technologies from Microsoft that are good; there are others that are not good; and there are others that still need to be refined and improved, but that are still very much in demand.

There are probably a significant number of machines that have been compromised and nobody knows.

I think there are enough hackers in the world that will look for machines they can own. It's not difficult to find them. It is very easy to control a large number of machines.