Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War?

cuzality writes "The media is now beginning to suggest that this recent onslaught of new viruses (with new versions of major-impact viruses being found daily) the result of a virus gang turf war, kinda like the India/Pakistan virus conflict, in which official Pakistani sites were savaged by such infamous groups as Indian Snakes and Indian Hackers Club. The gangs are shooting fast and loose: variations of the big ones are being discovered daily (as of March 4, we are up to MyDoom.H, Netsky.F, and Beagle.K), and in the space of three hours on Wednesday morning, five variants of these three were first discovered. Typically these viruses (or more correctly, worms) do little damage to the infected computer, intent mostly on spreading far and wide, and sometimes inflicting DoS on some poor evil empire."

Comments

And your question is...

[saderax]

For an ask slashdot article, i saw no questions... just a list of vague statements that could maybe comprise a rumor...

Is the probelm really hard to fix?

[max born]

I've never used Windows, probably never will. Viruses always amaze me.

Why, oh why, oh why, would ANYONE, EVER, run any unverifiable code on his computer?

Isn't the answer here really simple for Microsoft?

Before executing any code, ask the user if it's okay.

Max

Re:I would like to point out...

[chrisopherpace]

Users that can't backup their data suck. I'm not a full-time admin to any of my clients, its the user's responsibility to backup their data, and verify it. I gave them the training, they have to follow through.