The Norton Anti-Virus gateway was affected,

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Singapore is an important airline. It's really the gateway to aircraft sales in Asia. But at end of the day, one company with 10 aircraft is not going to make or break any program.

The sole goal is to get on a person's machine in very silent fashion, disable anti-virus software and then download its bigger brother.

In the way of virus protection and security, I keep my laptop updated. I download Windows updates and use Norton [Virus Protection].