Recently I got a panicky phone call from Henry the security administrator of a California hospital I have done business with for years. It seems the hospital had been hit by a nasty case of the MyDoom virus that began its explosive growth during the last week of January After attempting to calm Henry down, I asked how MyDoom got released inside the hospital, which has about 2,000 desktops, 1,000 remote machines, and the usual assortment of Windows and Linux servers. "That's the really bad part," he harrumphed."Our execs did it." "Your execs? What do you mean they did it?" "They clicked." "No!" I was flabbergasted. "They clicked on an attachment that says, Virus detected, do not open'?"
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