Stuxnet Deactivates Itself, Iranians Crow

Published June 27, 2012 11:08am ET



This past weekend the Christian Science Monitor reported that Stuxnet, the original computer virus detected in the American-led cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program, was set to deactivate on June 24. That just so happens to be “seven years to the day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president.”

This is probably not that big of a deal because, as the Monitor points out: Stuxnet is just one of several programs let loose inside Iran (others are more sophisticated), another version of Stuxnet could be on the prowl, and Stuxnet has already been quarantined on “[a]ll but a few hundred of the more than 130,000 computers globally” that were infected.

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