viruses a virus in comment and analysis
The silicon.com Yearly Round-Up
Comment But not viruses. This year has seen more and more nasty people write horrid viruses and vicious worms and let them loose on the internet. A virus-free world A lot of them were so damaging because they exploited holes in Microsoft software, but I... [14 Feb 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Hail the red-eyed road warriors
Comment Not to be outdone, MessageLabs has commissioned a survey that raises the spectre of another outbreak of Love Bug-style computer viruses on St Valentine's Day. We've already had two warnings: one from a maker of reliability software and another from... [02 Feb 2001]
Anti-viral teamwork: How a Panda highlighted industry shortcomings
Comment The list requires its members to share encrypted copies of new viruses found in the wild before a press release is sent out. It's nothing new to accuse the anti-virus industry of hype. In the last few years almost every anti-virus vendor has been... [16 Jan 2001]
Of viruses, IT and the Christmas Grinch
Comment We've already seen viruses which claim to be Christmas-related, like Navidad and Music," he says. If you rely on automation to check all email attachments for viruses, and deny all encrypted attachments - which can't be checked - then the time of... [15 Dec 2000]
Common ground: uniting against the virus threat
Comment In the aftermath, suffering from battle fatigue, the vendors seem unanimous about the need to prevent widespread panic and hype by establishing an independent benchmark for grading viruses. Computer viruses are no longer the privilege of geeks... [23 Aug 2000]
Virus alert: Watching the detectives
Comment Our ability to pick out a Melissa or a Love Bug from the plethora of hoax viruses on the Web has been cast into doubt by software vendors who say we over-hype the issues. They say we need a 'virus committee' to grade each virus against a common... [02 Jun 2000]
Microsoft passes the Love buck
Comment It's estimated that viruses cost business over $12bn last year alone. The worst virus attack ever seen has come and gone, leaving in its wake a day of massive disruption, and a large number of picture and audio files irreparably damaged. [05 May 2000]
Y2K viruses: running wild - or wildly exaggerated?
Comment The question arises: are these virus-fighting companies performing a valuable service, or will this constant flow of hype lead to apathy that could be more dangerous than the viruses themselves? He further attacked Sophos' rival anti-virus... [05 Jan 2000]
Value-added ISPs: when the Net is not enough
Comment Also, Jones added, viruses don't only enter a corporate network through email and so a service like this would have to be used in conjunction with other virus protection methods which "would mean businesses won't get the huge cost savings that... [09 Dec 1999]
Signing up the competition - have digital signatures met their match?
Comment It certainly takes longer to detect a hack than a virus, because viruses are spread between machines and they usually crash them. Digital signatures may have hit the headlines for securing ecommerce transactions, but in more traditional security... [12 Nov 1998]
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