interesting writeup on the witty virus on the reg.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/witty_evil_firsts/
--snip
The fact that Witty came out only one short day after the exploit
vulnerability was announced, and that it went after a specific set of
products designed to provide adequate security to hosts means that the
concept of defense in depth, or layered security, is becoming ever-more
important. It should already be a given for most organizations: a
multi-vendor, multi-layered security architecture to protect a network
even when a single component fails. But it would be ridiculous to expect
the same thing from the average home user, even the ones who proactively
went out and purchased a personal firewall, already have up-to-date AV
software, and are current with their patches -- and still woke up to a
dead machine.
--pins
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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught
and shot now.
-- Zaphod Beeblebrox
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