This has to be the reason I just sneezed!  

EDIT: Over on cNet News, they are saying that it's older.

Sadly! Shouldn't have survived 'til its 1st birthday...better still, should've been stillborn.

Unfortunately, it survived, and now is impregnating computers all over the world with its illegitimate spawn - bastards of the enth degree, just itching to propagate and send their insidious demon seed into PC's, laptops and PDA's everywhere.

That's right, people, they're out there, infestations just lurking in the shadows of the internet until your computer is most vulnerable, and when it is....lo, deformed and mutant clones of itself will slip in undetected and wreak havoc on your hardware and soft...er more delicate bits. Yes folks, make sure your PC has protection.



....and that pimply faced, wicked litte school boy sure has a lot to answer for.

You certainly seem to have a stereotype on hackers and programmers if your unaware there are three terms for hackers white hat a hacker who hacks for a good purpose and is normally hired by company's to find security holes in there systems, then there is Grey hat hacker which hacks out of curiosity and normally doesn't contribute to much damage and some times will turn there findings into the manager of the website they hacked and so forth then you have the black hat hacker the one the public stereotypes they tend to be hired by gangs to launder money write virus that steal credit card information these hackers tend to write the viruses that can harm your your security and these are the viruses that you most likely come in contact with since the goal of these viruses are not out of fun or curiosity they are ment to exploit you and harm you generally money wise.

~Also programmers don't always have pimples also the reason the virus has survived is probably because it being kept as a piece of history. Also it is not a worm and dose not mutate.~

No, not at all....my little piece was written with tongue in cheek and intended to be humorous....and certainly not personalised in any way to refer to hackers of any kind.

As with viruses in the organic world, computer generated viruses/worms, etc, seemingly are able to propagate and multiply at will, and as with organic viruses: for example STD's, one has to protect themselves/their PC's against them: ie, buy a condom/AV protection.