Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.

It's something we call collateral damage, but I don't mean that lightly. This thing creates traffic inside a subnet, creates traffic in addition to what comes in from the outside.

[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns.

It's not a major risk. It's not [doing] either of the two things that are terribly damaging. One is hurting people's machines, and one is knocking things [off-line].

all the new PCs and the new Web servers, multiplied by the fear of top management about security breaches and business-stopping system failures, kept these salaries [growing] three times as fast as salaries [across all industries].

It is a situation where MCSEs had no idea that there is a fundamental vulnerability in IIS and ISAPI mapping and so had no way to protect their systems other than after-the-fact patching,