00:01So, at Symantec, we have probes on networks all over the world watching for malicious activity.
00:07We'd actually seen infections of Stuxnet all over the world, in the U.S., in Australia, in the U.K.,
00:13in France, Germany, all over Europe.
00:15It spread to any Windows machine in the entire world.
00:18You know, we had these organizations inside the United States.
00:21We were in charge of industrial control facilities saying, we're infected, what's going to happen?
00:26We didn't know if there was a deadline coming up where this threat would trigger and suddenly would, like, turn
00:32off all, you know, electricity plants around the world, or it would start shutting things down or launching some attack.
00:38We knew that Stuxnet could have very dire consequences, and we were very worried about what the payload contained, and
00:46there was an imperative speed that we had to race and try and, you know, beat this ticking bomb.
00:53Eventually, we were able to refine the statistics a little bit, and we saw that Iran was the number one
00:57infected country in the world.
00:59That immediately raised our eyebrows.
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