Andreas Krokene wrote:
> George Orwell wrote:
> > idm.net.au
> > http://************/1dcj3
> >
> > March 19, 2007: According to experts at this week's CeBit exhibition in
> > Hannover, Germany, winning the war against malicious software may not
> > be possible.
> >

True. But that won't stop them from
scaring Joe Public into buying their
addictive product. (see: Vmyths for clue)

> > Addressing the exhibition late last week, Eugene Kaspersky or Russia's
> > Kaspersky Labs remarked that "If the growth in malware continues at the
> > current pace, makers of anti-virus software
> > http://************/useless_software may not be able to withstand the
> > onslaught."
> >

Not true. The infestations come and go
and as the size of the *problem* vector
increases so will the solution matrix.

No system will maintain dominance forever
It's a constant armsrace... Which happens
to be a good thing for general progress.

> > Grim words indeed. While no security vendor promises absolute and
> > infallible security, the sheer volume of malicious software appearing
> > is driving security firms towards their own Thermopylae.
> >
> > Kaspersky rival F-Secure highlighted the deluge of nefarious software
> > claiming it can receive over 40,000 tainted file submissions some days.
> > "How can we deal with this avalanche," said F-Secure chief research
> > officer Mikko Hypponen...

Re: Mikko Hypponen - I suggest you get
out of the kitchen if you can't stand the
heat buddy. (Hope we don't have to wait
too long for the dead man shoes ;]])

> >
> > Kaspersky likened the battle between antivirus vendors and malicious
> > software developers as a "spooky arms race" where the attackers are
> > disparate and invisible, and suggested a way of dealing with the
> > problem could be via the establishment of a UN body that would act as
> > "a sort of internet Interpol."......
> > ----------

*heh* Control freaks. Always the ****ing
same with these *******s... Hope we never
get to the position of Tsar Kaspersky,
ruler of the cyberspace police state.
(them Russian love controlling things!)


> > A UN body? Man, that's what I call desperate.
> >

It is desperate. But it will never happen


> And if these virii are email-delivered then
> that could be an Internet "Armageddon".
>
> One wonders how the UN could stop this
> electronic equivalent of phonebox-smashing,
> or graffiti-plastering by our less than
> intelligent members of society!
>
> Andreas Krokene
> http://mail-my-family.biz/blog


I wonder what my Anti-Virus friends
KWismer, DCook, DLipman, AKopp et al have
got to say.


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