The MIT News office did a fine job keeping the press informed and out of the way. Batching the numerous requests into one press conference helped tremendously. The Berkeley group, among others, reported that it was difficult to get work done with the press constantly hounding them. General Points for the Future More general issues have popped to the surface because of the virus. This basic security principle is frequently ignored and this can result in disaster.
Diversity is good.
Though the virus picked on the most widespread operating system used on the Internet and on the two most popular machine types, most of the machines on the network were never in danger. A wider variety of implementations is probably good, not bad. There is a direct analogy with biological genetic diversity to be made. Backups are good. Defenses must be at the host level, not the network level.