High-tech companies like Sun Microsystems Inc. and 3Com Corp. are also constantly running marketing campaigns aimed at their thousands of corporate customers and independent distributors.
Big guys like IBM, Oracle, SAP and Sun Microsystems spent the tech downturn upgrading their computer systems to work together and handle these chores, partly as a way to make money in the slump.
Kaminsky's bug, meanwhile, sent tech companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems scrambling to release fixes and Internet service providers racing to implement them.