Ever since Robert Morris unleashed his first Internet worm in 1988, virii have been a nuisance and a threat to both corporations and individuals alike. In the early days, worms such as these took an understanding of at least basic programming and of the vulnerabilities inherent in the operating systems at work in computer networks. Those virii that were released took time and effort to produce and often were not created with destructive or malicious intentions in mind. But that was then, and this is now. A lot has changed in the world in the past fourteen years. While in the past the novice would have no access to a common global network (the Internet), yet alone GUI tools to create, package, and distribute malicious code against any whimsical target, today even foreign pre-pubescents have the chance to annoy and harm the networked community at large.
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