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The most recent Internet worm -- Slammer -- did most of its damage in
the first ten 10 minutes of existence.  It  did not know, or care,
whether the network it was on was scale-free, small-world,
core-periphery, etc.  It generated addresses to attack[potential
targets] using a random number generator[a poorly programmed one at that].

Whereas awareness of topology, and  attributes of target node, help in
searching human networks, fast & dumb algorithms appear to work just
fine on non-social networks.

Here is an in-depth analysis...
-- http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2003/sapphire/sapphire.html

Enjoy,

Valdis

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