malware in comment and analysis
Devil's Advocate: Your PC will never be safe
Comment Their creators have threatened legal action against software companies that designate them as any kind of malware. Martin Brampton discusses this great conundrum of the security industry. Think your PC is safe because it has the latest security... [05 Jul 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader Two weeks ago, news desks across the UK were throbbing with rumours that the "industrial-strength" Trojans attacking the country's most important government agencies and businesses were coming from China. [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader Two weeks ago, news desks across the UK were throbbing with rumours that the "industrial-strength" Trojans attacking the country's most important government agencies and businesses were coming from China. [29 Jun 2005]
Leader: Call a spyware a spyware
Leader The anti-spyware companies are trying - but their efforts are failing because they face the threat of being sued should they label certain companies' products spyware, adware or any other kind of malware. [09 Jun 2005]
The Minority Report: The state of Mac OS X security
Comment Phil Wood, product manager at security firm Sophos, believes the current threat to OS X users from malware is "slim". Furthermore, current figures indicate there is little to no risk to the Mac from spyware and malware. [03 Jun 2005]
Leader: Online crime - new tools, old tricks
Leader Virus writers looking for fame and glory are in much smaller numbers these days as criminals have moved onto their patch and are designing malware for profit. Who owns the internet? No one - but criminals would have it otherwise. [26 May 2005]
Opinion: Beware of company insiders
Comment My favourite was from Mi2G, which swiftly reported: "The global economic damage from all types of digital risk including overt and covert digital attacks, malware incidence, phishing scams, DDoS and spam is estimated to lie between $470bn and... [21 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.02.05
Round-Up And back to the subject of dodgy press releases, a security announcement which arrived in the editorial inbox this week claimed the total economic damage from malware - viruses and the like - in 2004 may have been as high as $204bn. [04 Feb 2005]
Leader: Still lots to learn from online music pirates
Leader The illegality aside, the songs downloaded from illicit sites are often poor quality and users are just as likely to find themselves downloading some nasty malware instead of the Kaiser Chiefs latest. [20 Jan 2005]
Minority Report: The legend of the Headless Mac
Comment The fact that it coincides with a time when Microsoft software is being battered by malware and the relentless pace of security update cycles is a further motivating factor. On dark and windy nights PC support technicians tell their children... [07 Jan 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment From personal experience, home PC users appear to fall into two categories: those like my father-in-law, who is so worried by the possibility of fraud that he's not going to risk connecting his brand new Hewlett-Packard system to the internet; and... [21 Dec 2004]
Leader: The East-West Linux-Microsoft divide
Leader Though Newham denies the deal was all about money, it's hard to believe one would choose Microsoft if security were your top priority, given the spate of malware afflicting Microsoft products. The West chooses Microsoft while the East chooses Linux. [17 Aug 2004]
Leader: Act now to stop next wave of virus attacks
Leader More than a decade after the problem of computer viruses began to hit mainstream consciousness we are still this week talking about the dire need for greater end user education if we are to crack down on the high levels of malware activity. [10 Aug 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 1)
Comment With the massive increase in spyware, why are antivirus companies not jumping on this opportunity to help us all with a one-stop solution to malware? Stuart Cooper asks: "With the massive increase in the amount and types of spyware, why are... [04 Aug 2004]
Leader: 'Quick...stop him... he's going for his iPod!'
Leader And what is to say that if music has been downloaded from a service such as Kazaa there isn't actually some rogue piece of malware in there as well which will be introduced? Picture these scenarios. You attend a trade show and collect a USB memory... [13 Jul 2004]
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