The Elephant in the computer
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Jason Caminiti
In a way this is kind of funny. But the problem is that they are completely clueless in the anti-virus world. Scanning for viruses doesn’t work, because you can’t keep up with the ‘footprints.’ Also, by the time they get in, they are in your system it is too late. Once a piece of malicious code enters your computer, you have no way of knowing what it has done. You can sort of achieve this with servers, but you really have to try. It will be interesting to see what new twist they come up with to block these threats. But the bottom line is you just have to be prepared before you even plug in your computer.
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