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It's official, there's a crapload of malware on the Internet
The actual number of unique samples doesn't necessarily mean all that much. So many of the nasties floating around the Internet are just mutations of other infections. Just look at the vast array of crud SmitFraudFix cleans up - it's a whole lot more than the original SmitFraud infection.
What's much more alarming is the number of infected PCs. Trend Micro points out the following in their blog post: "in the first six months of 2008, [Trend Micro] recorded that 253.4 million systems were infected with malware. The comparable volume for 2009 is almost double at 491.2 million."
That's a whole lotta infections. Trend's opinion on how to tackle the growing threat? Look to The Cloud, of course. They offer four possible benefits:
- Each client is a part of a real-time global protection network.
- When the network detects an Internet security threat on behalf of any one participant in the network, all participants are automatically and immediately protected.
- All devices that connect to the Internet are protected. This protection complements your existing antivirus security solution.
- There's correlation among the global protection network.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments!
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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jay4 said 4:10PM on 8-14-2009
I spend 4 hours on Tuesday cleaning up a "PC Antispyware 2010" infection. It was brutal. Millions of man/woman hours have got to be wasted on this junk. I hope there is a special place in hell for malware coders.
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Kenn.keeper said 4:36PM on 8-14-2009
Only goes to show you how many are sitting at home being welfare cheats with nothing to do but to sit at their probably stolen computers creating havoc on those who are honest hard working people.......(This is not in reference to those who lose their jobs because of the economy or illness)
These are the type who take no interest in doing anything productive in their lives because of their ineptness in dealing with anything honest. How do I know,,,,,,There are two people that I thought I knew that have been crossed off my list for purposely sending me malware via email to me....just because they thought it was funny....
Free is Good
Kenn.....
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sitruc said 9:46AM on 8-15-2009
W T F?
Kenn.keeper said 3:05PM on 8-15-2009
Enough said by those who only know how to reply with WTF,,,,,I must have touched a nerve.
Free is Good
Kenn.....
bill cant fart said 4:35PM on 8-14-2009
With all the people suing companies lately, when are people gonna start suing Norton and all the computer companies for including it?
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rokubungi said 8:59PM on 8-14-2009
makes me rethink my stand on infectious antivirus programs... like a rouge avg that infects your computer to clean up other malware. we need something like this now. of course if you already have decent antivirus software it wouldn't 'infect' your system. or at least some that target the worst bugs out there.
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jsmorley said 6:59PM on 8-14-2009
So I am going to be forced to sign up for your liberal Democrat "universal antivirus" program? How are we going to pay for this? I suppose anyone with a hard drive bigger than 250gb will be expected to pay the way for those with 40gb laptop hard drives... I don't need some "cloud" bureaucrat coming to my house and telling me that my system is "too old" to save. Keep the cloud out of my computer. This is America!
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zebahndi said 7:00PM on 8-14-2009
This is why firefox + noscript = mandatory
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last_man1 said 10:02AM on 8-15-2009
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136667/IE8_whips_rivals_in_blocking_malware_sites
Enough said !!!!! Firefox please.....don't get me started. Didn't need any crappy add-ons either. It does itself fresh from install. Have a "good day".
foo said 10:00AM on 8-15-2009
Am I the only one who thinks the forecast curve is far from fitting the data?
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laero said 4:08PM on 8-15-2009
With this and the news about quake live going cross-plattform my love for linux just keeps growing.
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