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New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
Mz6 writes "InformationWeek reports that Sophos has analysed and protected against 959 new viruses in May, this is the highest number of new viruses discovered in a single month since December 2001. From Sophos' own TopTen list they continue on to say that the 'Sasser and Netsky worms may have captured the headlines. ...May has seen a noticeable spike in cybercriminal activity, suggesting that even the arrest of Sven Jaschan ...has done nothing to curb the problem.'"
That Sophos antivirus has the somewhat incredible problem of not being able to remove and clean viruses on an infected host... but hey, at least we know they're there.
"Other bands play, but Manowar KILLS"
"Kowing is half the battle!"
On a totally unrelated note.. is it bad when you post comments to your own stories?
Hmmm.
... the school semester ends in May. What are all those CS graduates supposed to do in between being rejected for an interview and filling in a McDonald's application!
that explains the porn advertisement posts on my blog with IPs tracing back to infected machines all over the world...
damn those script kiddies.
I'm investing in a hazmat licence with all the infections I see on enduser computers.
What could possibly go wrong?
to boost virus levels 30 months ago to never before seen heights.
Give it time! 64 bit Windows isn't even widely available yet. Sheesh!
How many of these affect Linux?
Oh, right.
And how is this news? Windows users expect to get hit by viruses; this is nothing new.
When Linux starts getting hit, then I'll take notice.
All those people who claim that Linux is ready for the desktop conveniently forget that it still doesn't support anywhere near the number of viruses that Windows does. A single release of Windows contains more virus enablement than all releases of Linux combined. When it comes down to it, Linux won't ever break into the desktop mainstream until Linus improves support for viruses.
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
Most viruses, like Bagel and Netsky, spread via user stupidity. They e-mail themselves to everyone on your list, and then people open them, and infect themsleves, etc. The exploit viruses are far rarer.
no, W32/ is a standard prefix for virus names, it just exists so you know it is a virus name
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I use ClamAV on my mail server and it works pretty good.
When you think mediocrity, think ClamAV
In God we trust...all others please have two forms of ID
Don't worry. Even if all the virus writers go away, there will still be the spammers and the spyware writers. Not to mention the really-shitty-driver writers. They're the most nefarious of the bunch.
A very good parent post. You should forward a copy of it to all of your friends by email.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit