Crispin Cowan, WireX

"1. Variations on the "Love Bug" active content transmission vector that exploit Microsoft's wide-open desktop architecture will be used to deliver much more damaging payloads. Dangerous payloads may include stealthy payloads that infect the machine and then lay dormant, waiting for some particular time or condition to occur. Worse, the payload may be coded to look for a particular person, steal particular secrets or keys, and mail them home to effect industrial or military espionage.

"2. "Format" bugs as prototyped by the WU-FTPD bug in June, will grow to rival buffer overflow bugs in 2001, in all kinds of networked systems. However, because format bugs are much easier to detect and control than buffer overflows, the problem will fade, and by 2002 buffer overflows wil again be the dominant problem."