This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk. |
This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer. |
This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer. People should stop accepting this kind of content from their friends and colleagues. |
This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will be protected. |
To the untrained eye Mytob and Zotob can appear quite different: one group of viruses travels via email, the other primarily by exploiting a Microsoft security hole. |
Trojan horses are the real growth area. |
Trojans are different from viruses because they can lurk in PCs without anyone noticing and can spy on the computer user's activities then send this information back anywhere in the world. |
Two years ago, the US accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world - now it is less than a quarter, evidence which confirms that more Americans are waking up to the need to protect their home computers from malicious hackers. More and more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers with the intention of stealing information and sending out junk email campaigns. |
Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic. |
Unlike worms, it doesn't have a capability to replicate itself and so has to be manually spread by being spammed out deliberately, or people downloading it from a Web site. |
Viruses emerging for the Mac OS X platform is headline news for Apple fans, but they are currently posing far from the level of threat that Windows users face every day. No-one should panic, but this is an indication that hackers are showing an increased interest in targeting the platform. |
We don't want to touch that with a bargepole. What kind of message would that send to our customers? |
We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business. |
We would still love to see a sample of this and determine if this is a potential threat to our customers. It's a little bit disappointing that they are not sharing the sample. |
What the chart reveals is that spammers and virus writers can exploit unprotected computers anywhere in the world to send out their unwanted messages, |