viruses and virus in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The next big tech event to be held at the Moscone Center is the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, which kicks off at the start of June and as everyone knows: Mac users don't get viruses. According to... [16 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Back in the distant past of 2003 the threats were different - viruses, spam, hackers, SQL Slammer and so on. V is for Virus variants But an observer from another planet might be forgiven... [29 Apr 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Malware - the generic term for malicious computer software such as viruses, worms and Trojans - has been infecting computers and driving users crazy since the early 1980s. Boot-sector... [19 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment If we stop worrying about (and therefore protecting ourselves from) viruses, then that's what the malware writers will turn their attention back to. I use proper antivirus (etc), updated hourly, so... [04 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment We have the ability to be able to track down and destroy individual viruses and other forms of malware enlisted by the dark side. Shipping all new machines with firewalls... [19 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up A statement on Apple's website said: "As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it. Some wags have... [20 Oct 2006]
Leader: Why Orange has been a bit green on security
Leader The fact of the matter is that there are no mobile phone viruses which pose a real threat to users and there's very little likelihood that mobile phones will be targeted by virus writers... [17 Jul 2006]
Minority Report: The new 'Get a Mac' ads
Comment The characterisation is clear and it's no coincidence that the two 'computers' seem to have been modelled on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - though a Gates who has clearly been driven to a diet of pork pies... [08 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. F-Secure has now detected 179 mobile phone viruses and estimates that some tens of thousands of handsets are infected. We... [12 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment Meanwhile, some equally smug sections of the Mac community have predicted that OS X is an impenetrable fortress with nothing to fear from the collected hordes of malware authors who have managed to make the majority of people in the... [03 Mar 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment With its military background, it sounds a note of pragmatism which acknowledges that all the pot plants, pool tables and 21st century office space in the world won't help Kaspersky's high-flying Silicon Valley rivals... [25 Jan 2006]
Leader: Can security hype ever be justified?
Leader But Finnish security firm F-Secure refuses to bend on the issue of mobile phone viruses posing a serious problem, and claims it is building momentum behind the issue now in the hope of catching it early... [02 Sep 2005]
The Minority Report: The state of Mac OS X security
Comment However, others are more increasingly cautious.silicon.com reader Kervin Desir says: "I think as the Mac becomes more widely use[d] we will have our share of viruses, that is almost impossible to prevent, but it all... [03 Jun 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... [04 Feb 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment With phishing scams, viruses, worms and hacker attacks on the rise, Simon Moores looks at what can be done to make the internet a safe place to communicate and do business. They are... [21 Dec 2004]
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