'Andreas Krokene' wrote, in part:
The 'Toothless Tiger' is inept, but only
because it is manned by politicians in a
different guise. And it will never be any
different.

And that ends my off-topic rant!
_____

According to this Sophos report at
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/ne...ecrep2007.html
two countries account for two thirds of malware. So perhaps bilateral
efforts are more to the point than UN involvement.

Phil Weldon

"Andreas Krokene" <fiction-writes-well@i-dont-exist.com> wrote in message
news:45ff48d4$0$17580$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
Phil Weldon wrote:
> 'Andreas Krokene' wrote:
> | 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!
> _____
>
> What is 'virii'? Other than a failed attempt at the plural of the Latin
> vir
> (man)? The accepted plural for a malware virus is the same as for a
> biological virus.


Greetings Phil,

I see you are a language expert. I am
severely reprimanded and I repent of virii.
It should be viruses.


> What is a 'phone box'? Is that the 'public phone' that disappeared with
> the
> triumph of the cell phone?


We still have some public phones on the
streets in Perth, Western Australia. However
they are disappearing fast. Most public
phones aren't even in phone boxes anymore,
but in little egg-like shells in shopping
centres (shopping malls) and in small groups
of local shops (stores).


> And most importantly, how could the UN be expected to halt malware if
> halting genocide is beyond its present capability? Interpol might have a
> chance, but not the UN.


The 'Toothless Tiger' is inept, but only
because it is manned by politicians in a
different guise. And it will never be any
different.

And that ends my off-topic rant!

Andreas Krokene.

PS A fine day to you all!


> Phil Weldon
>
> "Andreas Krokene" <fiction-writes-well@i-dont-exist.com> wrote in message
> news:45fe44da$0$17535$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> 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.
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.”......
>> ----------
>> A UN body? Man, that's what I call desperate.
>>
> | 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
>
>
>