Instead of hoping for international laws, the international community may want to make clear that prohibiting cybercrimes and effectively prosecuting cyber-criminals must be on the policy and legal agenda of any nation wanting to play an active role in the global information network. It is much more important to apply these laws and to change the way we think about cybercrimes. Some of the cybercrime cases can, indeed, be seen as terrorist attacks. We need to be careful, however, in attaching labels. The utter thoughtlessness of the programmers of such software bears at least some of the responsibility for the attack's wide-spread consequences.
Today there are literally tens of thousands of different strands.
Obviously, the success of the networked personal computer also increased the number of computer viruses. So it is a safe bet to expect a continuous increase in the future. But there is no reason for despair as anti-virus software, too, has become much more sophisticated and is quite capable of effectively protecting PCs.