| Valentine’s viruses vandalise victim’s PCs |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Sunday, 15 February 2009 | |
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For years now, the insecurity of the Microsoft Windows platform has been well known, as has the need to regularly update the OS with the latest security patches, in addition to running Internet security software. The fact that many machines aren’t updated and/or aren’t running up-to-date Internet security software is mind boggling, as is the fact that OS makers (of all stripes) can’t create a secure system that is impervious to attack. Of course no lock can remain unbroken, so perhaps it’s not so mind boggling after all, but after more than a decade of public warnings through the mass media, the fact that people continue to open attachments with abandon, perhaps more people need to be infected and have their computers affected or wiped out to learn a valuable lesson - although protection is oh so simple! As noted at VNUnet.com, PC Tools has warned of malicious attachments hosting the Waledac worm, which include meandyou.exe, onlyyou.exe, loveprogramm.exe, ecard.exe, postcard.exe, lovekit.exe, mylove.exe, runme.exe and loveexe.exe. These could still be waiting in personal and corporate inboxes come Monday, so please, use some common sense and don’t open these attachments or any other that is even the tiniest bit suspicious, lest it be a broken computer instead of a broken heart you end up having to fix. As noted in the introduction, Mac and Linux users will exclaim that the vast majority of Windows viruses and malware poses no threat to their operating systems, although malware writers are having success in creating Mac specific malware of the DNS variety. Linux remains the most secure OS and with the release of each new distro gets better and better, posing an ever greater threat to the viability of running the Windows and even the Mac operating systems. Continued on page two, please read on. |
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