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2005-08-18 Home Front: Tech

Computer virus writers at war, security firm says

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#1 Battlebots!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-18 09:44|| 2005-08-18 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Geekfight!

Posted by BH 2005-08-18 09:55|| 2005-08-18 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 "Sarah Connor?"

Posted by The Terminator 2005-08-18 11:02|| 2005-08-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Just hook up all those computers to me, and everything will be fine....

Posted by Skynet 2005-08-18 11:09|| 2005-08-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 When thieves fall out, good men benefit. As long as they don't run Windows 2000. (Linux, Firefox, and Thunderbird -- your tools for a worm-free PC!)

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2005-08-18 12:39|| 2005-08-18 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 "Computer virus writers at war"

Any chance they'll actually kill each other?

(not their viruses, them)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-08-18 17:23|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-08-18 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Uh-oh! Visions of gray goo...

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-08-18 18:06|| 2005-08-18 18:06|| Front Page Top

#8 "chief research officer at F-Secure"
How secure? Well, that's pretty secure.

Jonathan,

That's not true. Linux, OpenBSD, and Apache gets attacked all the time. But, it doesn't make to MSM because 94% of the world's pc's run Windows. Firefox/Mozilla uses Java and IE uses Active X. Java and Active X attacks are very prevelant and these browser's are definitely vulnerable. If you go to the geek sites, there are thousands of hits.

(HIDS)Host based intrusion detection system is your only defense. HIDS prevents any windows kernel manipulation or buffer overflows.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-18 18:12|| 2005-08-18 18:12|| Front Page Top

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