Comments on: Kama Sutra worm hype may bite back

Some fear that the predicted doomsday scenarios followed by a nonevent may lead to complacency about security alerts.

[n3td3v]

They've been reading my CRY WOLF comments

YOU'VE GOT TO WONDER...

http://news.com.com/5208-7349-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=13465&messageID=107790&start=-1

http://news.com.com/5208-7349-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=13706&messageID=110448&start=-1

http://news.com.com/5208-7349-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=13706&messageID=110447&start=-1

[n3td3v]

I told you so...

Thats all i'm going to say! Maybe these guys need to listen to the real experts more. Forget trying to be an expert by going to university and reading books. The real experts havent been near a text book or university BUT have a hell of a lot of experience where its needed. Seeya

[n3td3v]

The only hype was by CNET

This is funny... CNET writing articles about their false reporting and rent a quotes.

From what I see CNET was the only site creating any HYPE.

Myself and others were trying to warn CNET against it.

I guess CNET can't help all those "END OF THE WORLD IS COMING" articles and rent a quotes.

[n3td3v]

F-Secure...

F-Secure won't admit there is no event...so kind of decided to say "WE WON'T KNOW THE FULL DAMAGE UNTIL NEXT WEEK"

Yeah...F-Secure...just admit you were wrong.

F-SECURE'S policy is though that every threat has "END OF THE WORLD" potential.
lol

[CARIBE49]

APOCALYPSE NOW THE WORM

After all after so much Panic ware,feelings grief, understimations indifference of opinons,etc. I made it my personal business, and privacy to protect myself from what ever comes with yes,"Norton System Works" and i uninstalled IE 7 beta just in case and got out of that night mare i should have known better,nothing was broken thanks God and back to both ie 6 and Firefox 1.5.01 *conclude:What ever it was that cause the brouhaha if there ever was one instead i take this like a fire drill course lol.I need a break seeya...

[Zerby]

This reminds me of The Minerva Virus

A book I just read. Very frightening about an out-of-control
computer virus.

There is a free full text download of the novel posted here:

http://www.theminervavirus.com

[Z4ns4tsu]

Maybe wrong view?

Maybe instead of saying that this was hype followed by a non-event, give credit where it is due and thank the network admins that made sure their networks either weren't vulnerable in the first place or cleaned the infections well before the payload was scheduled to go off. Without their efforts, this worm had the potential to live up to at least a part of the "doomsday scenario" presented.