Mikko Hypponen Quotes

Service providers can automatically shut down a user connection, and specify that to get back online users have to follow certain steps, for example, by visiting the Microsoft site for the latest updates. ISPs can automatically shut down what they want, and can still connect users to Microsoft.

- Mikko Hypponen

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This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files. - 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

If you invest in a security product and if you have a large company, it costs you a lot. And if it works perfectly, you have no problem, which means you don't see the product at all. You pay lots of money, but you don't see any results. - Mikko Hypponen