Thursday, March 17, 2011

Viruses and Malicious Software

It sure seems like we have been under attach lately. Lots of people are getting hit by the bogus antivirus software and other trojans that are very difficult to remove.

Where are they coming from and how are they getting into systems?

Watchguard (the firewall router company) recently had a partner event that reviewed the sources.

Many are coming from holes (un-patched software holes) in other programs like Adobe Reader, JAVA, Flash Player and more.

To best protect yourself it is now extremely important for you to patch not only Windows...but all of these other subsystems.

And because all of these programs have hooks into web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc...you can trigger the attackers ability to get into your system by merely looking at web pages that seem to be reputable.

This is a very tough problem to attack. Check out what the professionals have to say: http://www.watchguard.com/predictions/index.asp

Stay tuned - ACE will try and keep you as up to date as possible.

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