12/22/00 - Holiday News Updates
A timely look at virus and hacker activity affecting this holiday seasons. Daily updates posted from December 22, 2000 through January 2, 2001.
12/15/00 - Read An Email, Get Infected
Kak, Verona, and now Forgotten are email worms that infect simply be reading (or in some cases, just by previewing) email. Worse, just the act of deleting the email can cause an infection. Find out how you can protect yourself - and others.
12/10/00 - Email...A Ticking Time Bomb?
Email is perhaps the greatest communication tool since the telephone was invented in 1876. And just as prank and obscene callers embraced that medium, so, too, did virus writers embrace email. What can you do to lessen your chances of being victimized by email?
12/03/00 - What's In A Name?
A threat considered high risk by antivirus vendors McAfee and Trend has confusingly been given three different names: Creative, W32/ProLin@mm, and Troj_Shockwave. It is already difficult to keep abreast of new virus incidents when a single name is used. How can users find the information they need if they don't know the proper name?
11/29/00 - Navidad, MTX Steadily Infecting Users
Just In Time For The Holidays… Navidad, MTX, Music and Hybris continue to spread their malicious version of holiday cheer. Find out how you can protect yourself with these timely tools from various anti-virus vendors.
11/17/00 - While I've Got You On The Phone...
Friends are great. Since I'm in the antivirus industry, they inevitably ask me, "How can I protect my system from viruses?" This article takes a look at the steps we all should be taking to avoid becoming infected - and avoid infecting others.
10/23/00 - The Hoax That Cried Virus
Virus hoaxes have only one purpose in life and that is to spread to as many people as possible. Quite the same goal as viruses, some might say. Don't be fooled into sending out such erroneous "warnings", consult this article first instead.
10/08/00 - Can Your Antivirus Stop the Next Threat?
Antivirus vendors gathering in Orlando for the 10th Annual Virus Bulletin conference sent a clear message to users: traditional antivirus software may not be enough. What steps should you take to protect your system against unknown viruses?
10/06/00 - Excuse me, how much did your virus cost?
Whether soft costs or hard, no single category of attack exceeds the high price of computer viruses. Can loss of productivity or opportunity be recouped? Can it even be calculated accurately? Does the cost of prevention outweigh potential loss?
10/04/00 - Haunting Thought: Is Your PC a Zombie?
Remote access Trojans abound, and the machines on which they unwittingly reside are routinely published on hacker websites for others to access. These “zombie” machines are then used as pawns to attack other sites. Are you hosting such a nightmare?
10/02/00 - Where's the Def?
F-Prot users can relax knowing a new feature is on its way to lighten the load of creating rescue disks. This features allows the definition files to be spanned over multiple floppies, meaning no more creatively renaming files and minimizing protection.
09/26/00 - How to Compute...Safely
Users often ask which antivirus program is really the best. Unfortunately, there is no "right" answer to this question. Individual needs vary and, thus, so must the type of protection used. Sometimes, more than one product may be needed to fully protect.
