Mikko Hypponen Quotes

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected. - Mikko Hypponen

We've been monitoring the locations of the files that infected machines are now trying to download. So far none of them have activated. - Mikko Hypponen

We won't know the full scope of the damage until home users go home from work and turn on their PCs. We won't really hear until next week. - Mikko Hypponen

We seem to have a botwar on our hands... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate -- as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines. - Mikko Hypponen

We learned of the scanning bug in early December, but because it affected a wide range of our products, we wanted to release a fix for all (of the affected versions) at once. - Mikko Hypponen

We know there are widespread cases. One multinational company based in America had tens of thousands of PCs infected, and they might not even boot up their systems at all today. - Mikko Hypponen

We have two people who have contacted us and we have double-checked files from their systems. One (victim's machine) had write access to most to his company's network and the virus had deleted most of the company's data. - Mikko Hypponen

We have seen dozens of different attacks using this vulnerability since Dec. 27. One exploits image files and tries to get users to click on them; another is an MSN Messenger worm that will send the worm to people on your buddy list, and we have seen several spam attacks. - Mikko Hypponen

We have listed URLs that we are recommending systems administrators block. We don't recommend blocking the whole domain, as 99 percent of the pages on these free Austrian and German domains are OK. You should just block the problem URLs. - Mikko Hypponen

We estimate that in the future, every single phone will be running an antivirus system. - Mikko Hypponen

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