Cudni
La Merma - Los De Aca
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join:2003-12-20
Someshire
 ·BTOpenworld
| reply to Big Boss
Re: Is the spyware/malware problem as bad as it once was ?
of course it is as bad as it was
»AV Firms Scrambling to Keep Up
anti malware tools have been hardened, users are more aware but at the same time malware has evolved, hiding and protecting itself better. Now is not the time to take the eye of the ball. I doubt there will ever be such time
Cudni
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"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
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m0d
join:2005-03-02
ireland
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March 25th, @12:20AM
| Bad is a relative term I think..
If you remember viruses such as Stoned or Tequila in terms of the damage done to your data and at the time not easy to recover.. I would say "malware" has become a LOT less "immediately" destructive over the years.
That said, while destruction to data is less or its easier for the "wise" to recover and tools seem better .. I would balance that statement with the threat of Identity Theft which was basically not heard of back then. Its not done for "fame" any more .. its done for financial gain. For every one of those "tech savy" out there .. there are 10 that will "click through" any warning .. and well that means the problem is 10 times worse depending on how you look at it. You only need to look at online fraud figures and add in the ID theft guys who skim cards (in real life) etc to see .. its a totally different problem now with much wider scope.
So .. it changed but overall, its not less damaging or destructive. In my day you lost 9 months of work on your thesis/final project if you didn't backup (or reverse the virus and recover manually ..).. these days you lose real cash and credit card info.. So the damage is equal if not more real .. just very different and a lot more sophisticated.
Malware moved from the "technical realm" to the "criminal" .. I will use the term "malware" lightly because technically Stoned and Tequila were just "jokes that escaped the lab" .. or so their respective authors claimed at the time. There is however a clear shift and while VM is great .. the "next big threat" would be exploits involving VM .. aka rootkit or VM exploits. Give them stealth back and here we go again ..
Just my 2 cents .. but while malware is maybe in a lul at the moment in terms of finding new things to exploit.. there will always be bad ppl out there who stoop to any level. Its only a matter of time before they find a new exploit.
In fact it was this issue lead me to this forum a number of years ago now and total respect to all those who share information or fight malware  |
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gkatwork
@oleane.fr
| reply to Cudni
Hello,
From the link "AV Firms Scrambling to Keep Up", one poster gives the following link :
»www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pu···04791987
Where it is said that :
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The total number of threats in 2007 more than doubled. In the big picture, Kaspersky Lab added almost as many new programs to its antivirus databases in 2007 as it had done in the course of the previous 15 years.
The Internet had never experienced anything like this onslaught of threats, and Kaspersky Lab was pressed to do everything in its power - and sometimes even perform the impossible - in order to combat these threats. This is a cause for serious concern; if the situation does not change in 2008 (and there is no cause to think that it will), then the number of threats will again have doubled by the end of the year.
Regards. |
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