Storm virus has a birthday

The Storm virus continues to plague PCs around the world. And it is probably a headache for many CIOs. Since it showed up in email inboxes a year ago, the Storm virus has infected at least 1 million PCs worldwide and is responsible for billions of spam messages. In the last four months, the email management company Postini has blocked nearly 1.5 million copies of Storm. So where is this virus going? Anti-spam experts predict even more will pop up during the upcoming holiday season and that the Storm virus will set record volumes by the end of the year. "There does not seem to be any let-up in sight," says Adam Swidler, a senior manager at Postini, a subsidiary of Google. "Storm is perfectly capable of virtually unlimited mutations." So what's a CIO to do? Make sure your spam filter works well and your employees are trained not to click on any email they do not recognize. And keep up with all the security updates about Storm and the patches that might be needed to repel it.

To read about the Storm virus:
- Check out this USA Today article