88 Quotes by Mikko Hypponen

It took 15 years for the first moneymaking viruses to emerge for the PC. On the mobile side, I'm sure it will happen. It just hasn't happened yet.

The vulnerability probably affects more computers than any other security vulnerability, ever.

(The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We'd like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that's probably not true.

Not one of these is able to spread by itself, always the user of the phone has to accept installing of the virus.

It's really quite clever, ... It uses realistic file names and sends those to people you know. It's social engineering, just like we saw with Love Letter.

I'm glad the guy was stupid enough to get caught. If you have to write viruses, something like the type of message is not bad.

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.

If you run a Mac right now, you don't need antivirus. If you want to be safer, you should be using software that other people are not using.

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.