This is simply not vandalism; it's not somebody's machine which gets taken over temporarily. It's a very serious damage to someone to have their identity stolen and taken from them.

Our assessment of the worm damage is 'not serious'.

You get geared up for that, and then to find out that the market is temporarily taken away because someone from New York state with a small shipment messed up — well, it's disheartening, frustrating and maddening.

It's a simple, surgical fix that disables the hidden feature.

These threats worked by exploiting weaknesses in the VBS script interpreter which have since been addressed by Microsoft since the threats have diminished and there is already OS level protection we didn't need this additional layer of security.

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