The Virus Squad

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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Re:I wonder

[tiger99]

Would you really trust an anti-virus feature from the Convicted Monopolist, with their solid, well-proved track record of lies, deception and failure?

In any case it will surely result in them being back in court, because it would be a monopoly, like IE or Media Player.

BTW, I agree that Zone Alarm is good, no defence at all against viruses, because that is not what it does, but definitely the best of the Windoze firewalls, and I use it on my Windoze machine, not the useless firewall built into XP. F-Prot is free for Linux home users, can't remember if they also to Windoze, IIRC they do BSD as well.

To make the OS tolerably secure, M$ would have to rewrite it from scratch, as it would have to run with no write access to any program files or dlls, for a start. Their present pitiful excuse for an OS will forever remain that, ther is no way that it can be secured. Longhorn may be the answer, but by cutting the API set down to less than a quarter of its bloated predecessor, it will break compatibility with everything that went before. Another way of extracting more money from the gullible, only this time it will not work.

I do wonder how they ever managed to get such an over-bloated API set in the first place, clearly the Chief Software Architect was utterly lacking in competence in proper software design.