’An attorney's relationship with a client calls for the highest degree of privacy. Addressing the threat to an attorney's confidentiality of a computer with malicious code is therefore essential. There is a common perception that a computer is secured with the use of a firewall and virus protection program. Not so. The 2001 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey of IT professionals reported only twenty-five percent of the respondents thought their companies' computers were not compromised during the last year, even with their almost universal use of proper security technologies. Most attorneys lack the resources of large companies and firms to address sophisticated computer issues. Microsoft itself has been the subject of several well-publicized intrusions into its network, and a Congressional subcommittee flunked sixteen federal agencies on their computer security efforts, including the Department of Defense and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The typical small attorney's office should do better?’

’Anyone using a computer within the last few years has heard of a succession of disabling viruses and defaced web sites. "I Love You", "Melissa", "Red Worm" and the defacing of such well-known web sites as the CIA, Road Runner, Microsoft and NASA have raised the awareness of the need for vigilance in the protection of our computer assets. These are the disabling attacks where the victim loses a hard disk or customers, or gets calls from mad friends who were gratuitously infected by a virus-infected email. As bad as these symptoms are, the greater danger could be an infection with no symptoms.’