The Virus Squad

Posted by michael on Sunday February 29, 2004 @01:47AM from the 3-parts-hype-2-parts-drudgery-1-part-usefulness dept.

dncsky1530 writes "Sydney Morning Herald - The Virus Squad - 'A new species has been discovered. So new, it's still unnamed, but researchers are racing to tag it - before it spreads around the world. For the next 10 to 30 minutes, the computer virus or worm is dissected, analysed and identified... "On the day we detected MyDoom, we did another 18 viruses," says Paul Ducklin, Sophos's head of technology for the Asia-Pacific. "There are about 800 new viruses a month. And the unglamorous bit of our work is often the other 798."'"

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Admin rights by ward.deb · 2004-02-29 03:25 · Score: 0, Redundant

If Windowsusers just start working under useraccounts with limited rights most virusses won't do any harm because they need admin rights... But 99% of the Windowsusers I know use an account with admin rights... Even better would be not to use Windows at all..