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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Mytob still rampant, but why?

At the end of the month, I usually get announcements of the most common viruses and worms from the leading anti-virus companies, and Kaspersky has just published its monthly totals. Turns out that the Win32 Mytob.c mass-mailing worm has yet again taken the top spot with 33% of the "market". In fact, Mytob variants occupy 10 of the top 20 positions. But why? Mytob exploits a hole that Microsoft patched nearly two years ago, on April 13, 2004.

Is it ignorance, stupidity, lack of consideration for others, or all three?

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