A Central Repository for Virus Information?

four12 asks: "I've been doing more work lately with network security and tightening things up. My new employer has been pretty lax over the years with such things and has come to the realization that their luck has to be wearing thin. I have noticed an dissonance of information between the various virus information sites. McAfee will have a 'prolific' worm listed, but Symantec and Trend say nothing about it and vice versa. It makes me wonder first of all, is my anti-virus system catching things as fast as the other systems? Is there a place that I can go that digests the latest threats and information down in to a nice, clean webpage? I already have too many listserv subscriptions and don't want to wade through a dozen webpages trying to correlate what is out there."

Comments

Windows Update

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Almost all the virus problems are Windows-based, and a large majority of the problems occur after Microsoft has released patches. Hence, any comprehensive security plan should include some method of insuring that all critical security updates are applied throughout the company.

Beyond that, it's a race between Microsoft patching bugs and the anti-virus companies detecting the exploits.

Ethically ironic isn't it:

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Ethically ironic isn't it:

- MS's poorly designed and implemented product is the primary cause we have a virus problem (80,000 + viruses at last count);

- first thing I see when I log onto /. are banner ads for MS product!

Doh, I forgot: Raking in cash is better than taking the high ground and considering one'
s actions and behavior in the context of ethical social behavior.

Guess ./ forgot too, eh?