You techies might get a kick out of CNN's report of the bugbear virus, back in October 2002.

"Bugbear can disable your anti-virus software. When you scan your computer to see if it's been infected, Bugbear hides among your files, creating its own little terrorist sleeper cell in your Windows software."

"But the Nimda worm that was released shortly after last year's September 11 attacks was able to hide from anti-virus software. The Klez-e worm, which so far has become the most active computer threat in 2002, also has this stealth capability. "

"The irony with Bugbear is that it is exploiting a flaw in Microsoft's IE browser that was first discovered back in March.

At the time, Microsoft issued a "patch," or software fix, for the flaw. But apparently not enough home and corporate systems downloaded the patch ... and now Bugbear is bugging systems all over our networks. "

Question: WHAT IRONY?!?!