But what they all agree is that Zeus is the most pernicious "trojan horse" – a destructive program disguised as an application – on the internet.
In their letter, the New York legislators applauded Mr. Quinn's action, adding, "Given New York's immigrant heritage and our leadership role in the nation, we firmly believe that our state, too, must immediately end this destructive program".
The Bush administration was all set to use the crisis to push through an environmentally destructive program of corporate welfare, which had nothing to do with the actual problem; the sudden surplus of power put that plan on hold.
An editorial in a local paper captured the national mood today as a computer student all but admitted creating a destructive program that crippled e-mail systems around the world.
All the names are linked to a computer college in Manila where an official said today that a student had earlier written a password-stealing program similar to the destructive program that has caused tens of millions of dollars of damage in at least 20 countries in the last week.
They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran's ability to make its first nuclear arms.
The most exotic innovations under consideration would enable a Pentagon programmer to surreptitiously enter a computer server in Russia or China, for example, and destroy a "botnet" — a potentially destructive program that commandeers infected machines into a vast network that can be clandestinely controlled — before it could be unleashed in the United States.
In speeches across the Midwest, Reno inveighed against "the destructive program of the usurers"—by which he meant, of course, the ruinous policies of Wall Street and the banking industry.
"In reforming the federal coal leasing program and accounting for the full cost of coal on our health and our climate, President Obama and Secretary Jewell are saying that the American people no longer have to pay for this outdated, dysfunctional, and destructive program with their health or their wallets".
