Brilliant article, showing clearly how on top of its game Talos is. The work that must have gone into unravelling that malware sounds enormous. The presence of garbage like that on the internet underlines the need to run serious software on a Unix platform, preferably, one not containing an Intel CPU. If you use Sun, HP or IBM, you will be proof against 99.99% of the malware that's out there - for at least the decade it takes the parasites to learn how to write SPARC assembler.