Unlike worms, it doesn't have a capability to replicate itself and so has to be manually spread by being spammed out deliberately, or people downloading it from a Web site.

The Mytob worms have made a significant impact on the virus outbreak charts this year, so anything which may prevent future variants from being developed and released must be welcomed.

There are a tiny number of mobile-phone viruses compared to the threat on the Windows platform.

You need to decide yourself on this one. The vulnerability is a serious problem -- we've seen over 200 different exploits -- but I don't think this is a time to panic.

This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer.

This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk.