All work stopped on the project last year, but the group managed to create a working model. Probably we aren't the first people who thought about it and tried to write it. That's what makes us scared. Protecting organizations from such a threat requires more than updated anti-virus software. I don't know if it happens everyday, but for sure it's possible.
Automated worms are better spies than conventional hackers and crackers.
Some analysts, such as the Gartner Group, have suggested that companies employ a content firewall, quarantining executables, scripts and macros at the e-mail server or firewall level. Several companies have products that claim to do that for e-mail, such as GFI's Mail Essentials and Content Technologies' MimeSweeper. But the master key itself will then become a security hole, Junestam said. Zalewski, however, said companies should not expect a boom in such stealth worms. They are still difficult to develop.