Still, in spreading, the virus can create quite a bit of carnage, said Cronin. By the time he realized what had happened, all 85 of the firm's employees had received the attachment and enough had opened the e-mail that the company's servers quickly filled to overflowing, rejecting incoming messages. Design Continuum seems to be in the minority, however. Anytime they hear about a virus, they want to know about it and get a cure immediately. The anti-virus firms regard the past few months as a lull between storms.
Most viruses are by virus writers who have taken the code and tweaked it.
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