Originally posted by fd ski
Let's clarift some things:
b) he didn't do much damage in persepctive. He could have done far worst. If the virus deleted all DLLs off the infeced machine, we would be all still at work rebuilding machines. Considering what he could have done, he didn't do much.
He did do somewhat more damage than the viruses usually does.
Even companies were affected by this virus which was capable of infecting unpatched systems on itself, without the users input on the matter.
Usually when a company finds out their computers have been infected by a virus, they basically shut down all the business until the computers are clean.
So if a part of company stops doing business for half a day or even a whole day, the damages aren't going to be light.
Luckily, the authorities were able to block the 20 computers which on the lovsan relied.
We don't know yet what sort of instructions the virus could have received from these 20 computers - it could well been deleting of DLL's or something worse.... or even something as little as a joke.
We don't know... but in any case it was very serious.
The estimates of damages caused by this particular virus, has been around 7 billion dollars!
Good thing the 20 computers weren't up.
