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Interesting article.
I think that the biggest hinderance of worms today, is that they are still asexually reproductive.
Simple survival of the fittest dictates that as soon as a new threat comes to a species (a virus scanner, for example), if the species is asexually reproductive, then they dont last too long.
What would be interesting would be a virus that reproduces sexually. It would have to exist as source code (WScript comes to mind), and as such be able to exchange parts of its source code with other family virus's that the host may come into contact with. Thus, when the environmental threat comes in the form of a virus scanner, only some varieties will be picked up, thus eliminated from the "gene pool".
A bit far fetched I know, but it could create an ugly scenario...
My 2c
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Purely speaking from my environment and those I have a thumb on, new worms are down, but the older ones from years back still slosh up against our perimeter every minute of every day.
Most of the new stuff I'm finding is "for profit" bot infections and more advanced rootkit stuff. The rootkit area is heating up VERY quickly.
Also, new breath has been put into the sails of 4-1-9 scams. I'm seeing a rise in these on blog sites and various other vessels that can cross over filtering software. For example, they won't send them via e-mail because they will get clipped. Instead, they will send it within an e-greeting card, etc.
I'd have to say that worms are not going away but I would say that they are not the current focus of John. Q. Badguy.
--TH13
