response to conficker, the internet worm that in recent months has infected millions of computers around the world. this status quo is no longer acceptable. >> that, our own president, president barack obama, responding to conficker, a 2008 highly encrypted computer worm that our next guest calls the first skirmish of the new digital world war. strains of conficker have inflicted over 12 million personal and business computers thus far, and to date, the only ones able to contain the worm were not the cia or the fbi, but a group of high-tech volunteer geeks. i guess geeks, by definition of their success. his new book, "worm: the first digital world war," mark bowden, you just saw him there, author of "blackhawk down." explain to me in a way that i'm going to know what you're talking about what the threat is to me as an individual and to us