It is very different from anything we have seen before. For the first time, we have a computing monoculture. Monocultures in the natural world are extremely vulnerable to pests such as viruses.

A worm is specifically designed to spread itself from one computer to another. It will infect a computer once, deploy its payload, and then try to move on to other computers.

A worm is specifically designed to spread itself from one computer to another, ... It will infect a computer once, deploy its payload, and then try to move on to other computers.

What it will do is it will search through the C through Z drives and select randomly a set of files of varying extensions, and then it will zero out or kill the contents of an arbitrary extension of those files,

What it will do is search through the C: through Z: drives and select randomly a set of files of varying extensions, and then it will zero out or kill the contents of an arbitrary extension of those files,

Basically if you don't have to wait and your users don't have to wait, that's important. Turnaround time is going to be critical in this field. Every minute that an IS manger is waiting, they have people who are waiting to get their systems back.