CNN was in “crisis mode” when last week’s computer virus hit, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says, even though “the spread of Zotob and its variants wasn’t nearly as dramatic as some of those initial reports might have made it seem.”
But “the urgent tone of the coverage may have helped, said David Perry, director of education with antivirus company Trend Micro…Reports of a spreading worm may have caused corporate systems administrators to jump into action to apply the patch that Microsoft had supplied the previous week.” “There was a lot of activity because of the media reaction to it,” Perry said. More…
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