Antivirus firms discover Bots

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Sat May 15 23:45:01 UTC 2004


I'm glad that anti-virus firms are noticing the growth of Bots.
Unfortunately, their guestimating ability is still woefully inadequate.

Even frequent updates to anti-virus software won't help.  Many
bots disable automatic updates and block access to the antivirus
sites.  By the time anti-virus software detects somethings wrong,
its already too late.  The solution is to make certain your computer is
not compromised, instead of relying on anti-virus to clean it up later.

Antivirus firms warn of growing 'Bot' Networks
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20300880



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