[LINK] Web malware a 'loosing battle'

[Ivan Trundle]

LIsted below is an awful lot of effort for a mug computer user. It  
also implies a redesign of the overall 'package' that Windows users  
must suffer. So then, is there not a wonderful marketing opportunity  
for a retailer (or supplier) to build and offer all of the listed  
options here? The buyer can then sit back, relax, and consult the  
manual whenever they need to push buttons or switch levers, etc.

(...or they could simply use a Mac - now ducks for cover...)

iT


On 18/12/2007, at 2:41 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:01:20AM +0000, 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
>
> the re-think is really simple if you don't have a self-serving profit
> motive clouding your judgement:
>
> 1. don't use Microsoft Windows (any version)
>
> 2. disable java, javascript, flash, and other executable content.
>
> 3. for web browsing, use firefox (aka iceweasel) and :
>   - install the adblock plugin to block ads and user-tracking web-bugs
>
>   - install the NoScript plugin so you can selectively enable
>     javscript, flash, etc for sites where you really need & want it.
>
>   - install one of the cookie manager plugins so YOU have control over
>     the cookie data.
>
>   - install the CustomiseGoogle plugin so that google can't track you
>     across the internet or (via CG's randomise cookie feature) compile
>     a list of all the searches you have conducted.
>
> 4. for email, use thunderbird (aka icedove) and disable both image
>   loading and HTML email (and find the 'view as html' menu option for
>   the tiny handful of HTML emails that you actually want to see).
>
> (the last item is for those who like GUI mail clients. personally, i
> don't - i use the text-based mutt MUA. most people, however, will  
> want a
> graphical MUA).
>
>
> in short: take charge of your own computer and don't let virus  
> writers,
> spammers, or marketing droids and other corporate scumbags "own" the
> computer YOU bought with YOUR money.
>
> until and unless you do this, viruses, spyware, and all the other
> annoyances of the net will continually plague you.
>
>
> craig
>
> PS: this "re-think" has been known for years....but there's no money  
> in
> it for companies like Symantec.  It makes them pointlessly obsolete.
>
>
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
>
> <lilo> Fairlight: udp is the light margarine of tcp/ip transport  
> protocols :)
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