Spread of 'Sobig.F' Virus Is Fastest Ever. A computer virus that circulated across the Internet this week, hard on the heels of another nasty online infection, has been declared the fastest e-mail outbreak ever. By The Associated Press. [
New York Times: Technology]
Bigger and badder worms and viruses are hitting the Internet on a weekly basis. Most of these malicious little critters exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. If one vulnerability is uncovered and exploited on the same scale as Sobig and MSBlast each week during a calendar year, what would the cost and permanent damage be to the Internet as a whole?