Viruses, worms, and Trojans return with a vengeance
John McCormick
Published: 09 Jun 2005 11:25 BST
Final word
For the past several months, virus, worm, and Trojan attacks have remained pretty mild. Apparently, black hats were taking a rest and thinking up new attack modes -- I've seen a lot of online talk about new infections emerging in the past week or two.
Since these threats don't originate from any particular vulnerability that you can patch, about all you can do is keep your antivirus software patched and make sure the signature files are up to date. However, given the issue with CA's antivirus library, you also need to be careful with security tools these days.
Of course, many argue that educating end users about emerging threats can help. As for me, I've just about given up on trying to educate end users who have apparently never seen a scam e-mail they didn't think was the perfect thing to read at the office.
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