Malware soars in 2009

[tinman]

Panda reports more malware on its way

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[stoke]

Lol, so Panda are admitting that they will become more useless during 2009.

 

[Bcm]

In other startling breaking news, water is in fact wet.
This article is nothing but an advertisement...

 

[Sackboy]

I think it's going more mainstream. I visited a Reuters site and then found it had filled in my Firefox home page. How cheeky is that!

 

[pkid]

Sigh. I guess the article is a cue for the inevitable "Bill Gates should be fixing Windows." "Linux is so much more secure than Windoze." "Macs are so cool." comments.

On another note though it really sucks that there is so much malware out there. With the number of malware items increasing so much I think that white listing technologies that augment the usual blacklisting that security software does will become important. Cloud computing trends seen in anti-virus software will probably also be big.

 

[Rinkhals]

Sigh. I guess the article is a cue for the inevitable "Bill Gates should be fixing Windows." "Linux is so much more secure than Windoze." "Macs are so cool." comments.

On another note though it really sucks that there is so much malware out there. With the number of malware items increasing so much I think that white listing technologies that augment the usual blacklisting that security software does will become important. Cloud computing trends seen in anti-virus software will probably also be big.

I guess nobody has bothered to post about the inadequacies of Windows because it's self-evident?

On the other point, is cloud computing really practical when you have bandwidth capping?

 

[pkid]

I guess nobody has bothered to post about the inadequacies of Windows because it's self-evident?

On the other point, is cloud computing really practical when you have bandwidth capping?

My question to you would be what should Microsoft do to make Windows more secure? They have a firewall enabled by default, kernel patch protection in the 64 bit version, address layout randomization, you don't run as admin by default, auto updates come through regularly, they are going to offer free anti virus software (Morro), IE has a phishing filter and in Vista runs with lower rights. I use Vista and XP and never had an issue. I think that the problem is more with the users and also the fact the Windows is a huge target due to its popularity.

I don't think that pinging a database of malware in the cloud with a hash of a file when the behavioral analysis spots a program doing something suspicious is the end of the world. Downloading hashes of safe files isn't so bad either.

That said I hate our low bandwidth caps...

 

[Rinkhals]

Yes, I use XP and I have never really had a problem.

(Except once when I put the machine in because it wouldn't boot up: the technician said it was a virus but fortunately called me before he reformatted the hard drive....)

It's not really a question of what I expect MS to do to improve matters, it's more that their model of safety through obscurity seems to be thoroughly compromised.

With regard to cloud computing, I'm not really familiar of what bandwidth overheads this would consume, but it strikes me that a fair bit of data would have to be passed between the local and remote machines...