Continuous improvement
The worm world is not seeing continuous improvement. Ok, probably overstated. There's always lame releases of software even if the trend is upwards.
( Long discourse on noisy or 'loud' worms vs. more quiet wormish programs )
That said, there's fresher and fresher worms taking advantage of vulnerabilities made public over the last six months, and to top off a bad week, M$ released two new advisories. One is for rollup addressing a suite of Internet Explorer bugs (one of which is so bad, merely visiting a naughty web page can leave your computer backdoored to heck and back). With the reigning "tweak Microsoft's nose" mood, these don't bode well.
( Long discourse on noisy or 'loud' worms vs. more quiet wormish programs )
That said, there's fresher and fresher worms taking advantage of vulnerabilities made public over the last six months, and to top off a bad week, M$ released two new advisories. One is for rollup addressing a suite of Internet Explorer bugs (one of which is so bad, merely visiting a naughty web page can leave your computer backdoored to heck and back). With the reigning "tweak Microsoft's nose" mood, these don't bode well.