Smith is so busy ridiculing Schmidt that he neglects to describe what "zero-day viruses" and "affinity worms" actually ARE (or to link to a non-opinion-piece article that does).

Are these new buzzphrases for something we've already seen? Are they some new exploits (perhaps of Microsoft-only bugs) that we haven't yet seen in the wild? Or are they (as Smith seems to think) just boogymen?

We know how fast things like the Morris worm can spread. I'd like to know if Schmidt was describing, for instance, a similar beast that could infest Microsoftware.

I expect better from Security Focus.

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