Nick Skrepetos wrote:

> On Jan 26, 8:08 am, Ron Lopshire <not...@ovbl.org> wrote:
>
>>Some good food for thought from KL's Alisa Shevchenko.
>>
>>Vista vs. Viruses
>>
>> http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204791916
>>
>>WinXP was not useable in the Home/SOHO market until SP2. It will be
>>interesting to see if this is a sign of things to come for Vista.
>
> To me the bottom line is this - there needs to be education of the
> user - in our testing, Vista is harder to "infect" by normal means - I
> believe we will see spyware/malware lein more towards the packaged
> with other software method of infection - where the user runs an
> installer to install a piece of software and the installer has admin
> rights so it will be able to set the infection in place.
>
> Once you have install access you can do whatever you want - for
> instance, we have our kernel driver that allows us full, unrestricted
> access to anything/everything on the system for scanning and removal
> purposes - a hacker/malware author will certainly write something like
> this and then Vista will be infected as well.

Thanks for your thoughts, Nick. You might be able to educate the
women, but the men are probably a lost cause.

http://outside.arc.ab.ca/staff/erkamp/security.jpg

That's the difference between boys and girls. Girls mature and become
women. Boys just get older. [g]

We, especially those of you fighting these creeps, have seen a huge
shift in the paradigm as it pertains to malware throughout the course
of WinXP's run.

In 2002, it was porn-surfing, warez, P2P file sharing, script kiddies,
and a bunch of other aggravations encountered using the browser as a
vector.

In 2007, it is spoofing, phishing, botnets, and multi-million dollar
criminal empires using email as a vector (including Web Mail).

In 2012, it will be --- if you know the answer to this, Nick, your
retirement is already provided for. [bg]

You do have to admit, though, getting links to porn in the mail was a
hell of a lot more fun than getting a spoofed letter from American
Express. LOL.

Ron