“The hurricane is a dreadful natural disaster, and it's sickening to think that hackers are prepared to exploit the horrendous situation in an attempt to break into computers for the purposes of spamming, extortion and theft.”
“This Trojan isn't trying to steal money or confidential information, but acting as a moral guardian instead, blocking viewing of sites it determines are unsavory,”
“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.”
“[He said the Trojan horse is written in visual basic and doesn't appear to be connected to any other well-known malware .] It's more of a quirky piece of malware than a significant threat, ... Obviously, some people might construe it as a good Trojan because it blocks access to some adult sites and displays passages from the Koran. But from our point of view, no malware is good malware.”
“This Trojan writer just wants to clean up the Internet, which is unique for a worm creator. But despite what they might see as the best of intentions, this isn't the way to do it.”
“There are legitimate Web-filtering programs that let you control which sites your employees or your kids visit. The idea of putting controls into the hands of a Trojan is a bad one.”
“It appears that whoever wrote Zotob had access to the Mytob source code, ripped out the e-mail-spreading section, and plugged in the Microsoft exploit. 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.”
