88 Quotes by Mikko Hypponen

We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim.

Everything would look fairly convincing if they did some surfing to check out the site before clicking on the link. But they would still get burned.

Everybody would like to see the patch as soon as possible, but I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to test it thoroughly. However, if a widespread worm is found before next Tuesday, I do believe they will break the cycle and just release the patch.

As the virus is not new it's 2 years old this could only have happened if those testing computers were not running any anti-virus programs,

At the moment we are not aware of any attacks that would have used this vulnerability.

The worm can spread quite well once it finds its way beyond corporate firewalls.

I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad.

These will only get reported when people get home from work, and it will take awhile before they figure out who to call.

The situation on the Internet right now is so bad that if you go and buy a brand new computer and turn it on and plug it into the Internet, it will be infected by a worm within five to ten minutes,