I'm glad the guy was stupid enough to get caught. If you have to write viruses, something like the type of message is not bad. |
I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad. |
If systems administrators block these URLs at their gateways, it's not going to break anything. |
If you are infected, and you find out about it today, you still have time to get rid of the virus. |
If you are running an AMD processor with DEP enabled, it likely protects you from the vulnerability that hit you from the AMD site. |
If you invest in a security product and if you have a large company, it costs you a lot. And if it works perfectly, you have no problem, which means you don't see the product at all. You pay lots of money, but you don't see any results. |
If you run a Mac right now, you don't need antivirus. If you want to be safer, you should be using software that other people are not using. |
If you uninstall it, these viruses won't affect you now or forever, |
If your computer is off, nothing is going to hit it. That is what I often recommend to people who have cables or modems -- at the very least just disconnect the cable, |
Install the patch. We've tested and audited it and can recommend it. We're running it on all of our own Windows machines. |
It all comes down to whether the code ends up being shared or not. We have not seen it out on the Internet yet. |
It might be hard for ISPs to find the motivation to do it, because it's a lot of work and a thankless job as no one wants to hear they are infected. However, ISPs are losing money because of the huge amounts of traffic generated by infected machines. |
It took 15 years for the first moneymaking viruses to emerge for the PC. On the mobile side, I'm sure it will happen. It just hasn't happened yet. |
It's been pretty quiet. We know the word is out there. |
It's definitely going down all the time. |