An article written by Kim Zetter on the front page of Wired.com and published last week prompted concern among Google Apps customers that the security hole had also exposed their companies to mischiefmakers.
Or something that is tying innovators big and small in knots and befits only mischief-makers bent on making money in the courts rather than in laboratories.
The resulting surge of papers revealed that the virus is vulnerable to existing seasonal-flu vaccine and common drugs, allaying fears that mischief-makers would conjure it up and wreak havoc.