Flame virus set to spread like wildfire

[Molly Tournquist]

Hey, why couldn't it?

Now that it's lost its cover, there's no longer the same reasons to hold back with it.

Other entities will want to get their hands on the source, and those close to the operators of it will feel the strongest opportunity, assuming no handling of it has been delegated yet.

Some will try to reverse engineer it, take control of it, and/or exploit its unusual modularity.

After all, it's not really a virus.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Cozens
> Sent: 05/31/12 11:36 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Flame virus set to spread like wildfire
> 
> On 12-05-30 08:03 AM, Stephen wrote:
> > Excerpt:
> >
> > It is perhaps the most sophisticated piece of malicious software ever
> > designed – a digital surveillance device so complex it ran on sensitive
> > government computer networks for years, undetected.
> 
> The virus has been around for years and only now is it going to spread like 
> wildfire?? I see these types of messages now and then. I tend to ignore them 
> for two reasons. One, I rarely run Windows. Two, they smack of being little 
> more than generators of FUD.
> 
> People will pass along information in the interest of letting their friends 
> know of a threat that could affect them without knowing if their is any 
> validity to the threat. There was a time when virus alert notices were being 
> circulated when the virus the alert reported on didn't exist.
> 
> For newspapers, there is no news like "bad" news. In this case, bad takes on 
> several meanings. It's bad news, but also a bad effort as it is lacking in 
> hard information (which operating system(s) could be affected, who might be 
> impacted by this, how it will suddenly start spreading after it's been 
> around so long).
> 
> These things pop up now and then. Always good news for makers of anti-virus 
> programs to get people to panic and make sure their anti-virus program 
> subscriptions are up to date, or that its time to buy an anti-virus program.
> 
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> 
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