Command Software Systems - AntiVirus Software Protecting the Future Mary Landesman Download as PDF Year 2000 concerns have underscored our dependence on computers to provide our most basic needs. Corporations and government agencies rely on computers to provide electricity, access to funds, telephones, gasoline, medical care, and food. Compounding the problem is the vast hidden network that connects these resources.
Computers form an integrated global network, no longer restricted to physical connections.
This interconnectivity enables us to internationally participate with vendors, suppliers, and customers. This global participation is ingrained to such extent that it often goes unnoticed until a disruption occurs. It is this same interdependency, on a global front, that threatens to make the Y2K bug a crisis. Unfortunately, this interconnectivity causes threats in other areas as well. The new breed Melissa virus underscored our dependency on, and vulnerability through, E-mail.