It will help customers to handle their security better,

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

A friend of mine who was going to New College,

We knew about this vulnerability a month before the worm emerged, ... If companies knew to scan even their perimeter machines, they could easily have seen this vulnerability and applied this patch and not be affected. I think what we're going to see is a new awareness around this and, as a result, new emphasis on planned vulnerability scanning so they have a fixed process.

I was accepted for a high-school internship program at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, where I conducted research on network security vulnerabilities and technology that could automate security weakness detection.

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,