Chris Rouland Quotes (6 Quotes)

Chat is a conduit for distribution of malicious code. It's a way to distribute Trojans, and, in addition, users who don't know how to hide their IP address will reveal it during chat. On the Internet, chat is risky business.

There hasn't been a global solution yet to this problem. If hackers can shut down Yahoo, they can shut down anything they want tomorrow.

We haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. We're paying attention to any sites that may go down.

A master command wakes up the agents, identifies the target, and says go for it.

Its transmission technique is somewhat similar to Melissa. Once launched, it downloads an executable backdoor program from one of four Web sites. That program, Winbug6, steals passwords stored on that computer and sends them to an e-mail address in the Philippines.

Sasser is a successful and widely propagating worm with a somewhat benign impact to the end user. But people should absolutely remove it.