Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluleyis a British security blogger and the author of grahamcluley.com; a daily blog on the latest computer security news, opinion, and advice...
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There are a tiny number of mobile-phone viruses compared to the threat on the Windows platform.
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This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will be protected.
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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.
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Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.
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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.
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A lot of people are stuck in the 1990s, with their image of a virus writer as a kid eating pizza in their bedroom. In fact they are now much more serious, and much nastier.
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Although the CAN-SPAM Act has helped catch some spammers, and driven some to base their operations overseas, it has an obvious flaw: it relies on people to 'opt-out' of receiving spam rather than 'opt-in' in the first place.
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They don't need to go to all that extra effort to write a virus for Macs. There are plenty of unprotected Windows computers out there.
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There's a responsibility on the part of regular computer users to make sure that they are not part of a DoS attack.
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A combination of technology, legal action, user education and international co-operation is needed to truly make spam a thing of the past.
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That points to the guy in Turkey, who is alleged to have paid the worm author for writing Zotob.
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You need to decide yourself on this one. The vulnerability is a serious problem -- we've seen over 200 different exploits -- but I don't think this is a time to panic.
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This move into the theft of virtual goods is hardly surprising when you consider the sums of money changing hands for virtual items in these virtual worlds.
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There's a lesson for the general public here too. Always keep your antivirus software up to date and don't be too quick to believe everything you receive via e-mail.