Re: thoughts

[phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, der Mouse wrote:

> My own suspicion?  It's a relatively ordinary botnet-in-prepraration,
> just run by someone who's willing to let it lie fallow for a few months
> in order to get better penetration before spinning it up.

What if a worm was designed to propagate as widely as possible, and then 
delete all Excel, Access and QuickBooks files? Most small businesses have 
no real backups. The economic losses could be huge. The same segment which 
is most vulnerable to infection would also be the most vulnerable to this 
sort of attack.

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