Sal Viveros, director of marketing for McAfee, said the reason the worm has been so successful is because it hides in a.scr file, which many firms do not filter and many consumers do not expect to contain viruses.
Kay said that he expects the volume of phishing attacks to continue growing and that the focus of phishing attacks has shifted from targeting customer accounts at ecommerce sites to financial institutions.
But when used in conjunction with other technologies.it is a useful defence, because it makes Windows systems look 'different' to malware, making automated attacks harder. That's good if all you care about is preventing malware from running but it...
Microsoft made a couple of acquisitions recently - FrontBridge for email filtering and FutureSoft's Dynacom I-Filter (buying its web filtering product, not the company) - so now has the capability to offer both services.
Ovum analyst Graham Titterington says: "A normal content filter won't work, although some pin their hopes on speech recognition. Businesses should use antivirus software and it keep up-to-date, install a firewall and configure it to restrict...
Botnets represent the volume business in the world of criminal malware. This was bad for business and to address it malware developers dropped the self-replicating part of the Trojans, which were now spammed out in controllable chunks.