Sure! I mean, antivirus software will eventually come up with a cure, and with some time and ingenuity, they will be able to distribute it. This will lessen the strength of the attack, and maybe give enough bandwidth for security experts to get together online to try to find ways to eliminate the attack completely. This could take some time: a few weeks, a few months? But then what? We wait for the next one? What if the next one does as big an impact, but on top of it will delete files on hard drives? When will the lesson be learned? Will the computing community will really sit down and try to iron out some old problems? Will software publishers still rush their product to the market with bugs in it? Will e-commerce survive? Will the PC survive? I don't know.
5. Analysis of a Babel attack: potential Internet collapse
7. In conclusion
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