Security expert Bruce Schneier today wrote about the “Storm Worm” again. Go and read it and become very afraid if you are running the Windows operating system. Become even more afraid if you are responsible for a bunch of them, like in a company. And then get a clue and morph them all into something better, like installing any of the Linux/Unix/BSD variants.
The so-called “Storm Worm” is spreading since this year, and Bruce admits that in fact nobody knows exactly what’s going on, and what to do against or about it. Estimates of infected machines range from 1 to 50 million computers worldwide. Bruce has very good links in his article, so if you’re the responsible IT guy in your company, be sure to follow and read them all.
You just have tocome to the same conclusion like I did: stop running Windows - as fast as you possibly can. And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next: RIP, Windows.
Update: a good follow-up article, and an even better discussion of the readers, is available over at Bruce Perens’ Technocrat.
