It Can Happen to Anyone  Writing good antivirus software is
hard. Just ask the developer at a major antivirus company who
was infected with the Coreflood trojan on his personal computer
for over a year. Perhaps he was just testing their product, but
it seems odd to have allowed the trojan to capture some of his
personal information. Fortunately the antivirus developer was
not a domain administrator on the company?s network, so
Coreflood didn?t spread to every other system in the Windows
domain like it did at several other businesses, hospitals and
government organizations.   One might assume that by now, that
the antivirus company, employing the developer, would detect the
specific version of Coreflood that he was infected with on
February 23, 2007. Sadly, they still do not. The reason probably
stems from the overarching problem that all antivirus companies
face, and Coreflood is as good an example as any. There have
been dozens upon dozens of Coreflood variants over the last six
years. Virus and trojan autho