[LINK] Web malware a 'loosing battle'

[Rick Welykochy]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> Malware flood driving new AV 
> 
> Symantec researchers say number of malicious applications is rapidly 
> outpacing the volume of legitimate programs, forcing a rethink of  AV 
> defense tactics  By Matt Hines. December 14, 2007 
> 
> http://www.infoworld.com:80/article/07/12/14/Malware-flood-driving-new-
> AV_1.html?source=NLC-TB&cgd=2007-12-17
> 
> During a weeklong period in mid-November, security experts with Symantec 
> observed roughly 65,000 new applications being downloaded onto the 
> computers of customers participating in a new research project -- based on 
> their analysis of the software, as many as 60 percent of the programs were 
> malicious. 

The article fails to mention the applications that are targeting user's
PCs.  Is it malware embedded in a page?  Or is it the kind of thing that
a user clicks on, downloads and installs, anticipating some Great New
App on their computer?

The article fails to mention the only operating system on which this
is occurring. I must conclude that it is MS Windows, since continual
references are made to Symantec and Norton AV, whose products are 
only required on Windows.

Until cowardly reports such as this actually mention the root cause of the
problem, i.e. the flawed architecture of a toy "operating system" (I use that
term with great hesitation), they are basically pi**ing into the wind.


cheers
rickw

p.s. the entire two page article is here:

www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/14/Malware-flood-driving-new-AV_1.html



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