Interview with Mikko Hyppˆnen from F-Secure
What’s your overall take on the virus situation today?
Itís been getting worse and worse. I entered the business in 1991, but then things were easy. Back then we just had boot viruses that used to be physically carried around on a disk to be spread, so it would take a year for them to get around the world. Now with Slammer, Sasser, Blaster and the others, viruses hit computers and networks all over the world in a matter of minutes. We can’t handle it. Of the 100,000 viruses seen over the last 18 years we’ve cracked every single one. But it’s not a given that will continue to be the case. We might very well see a virus some day that we can’t crack.
