Call to Change PC Security

Estimates suggest that hi-tech criminals are pumping out about 60,000 individual pieces of malware every day. "In the last two to three years we have seen more individual pieces of malware than in the entire 30 years before that time[.]"

An initiative has been kicked off that hopes to improve the way PC users are protected from viruses.It will create and distribute a small program that will gather statistics on how quickly security companies find and remove malicious code. The figures will reveal if users are being left vulnerable and for how long as well as rank response times.

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Round them up, imprison them, then bombard their feeble little minds with subliminal torment via psychotronic weapons (Silent Sound Spread Spectrum) until their brains have reached the consistency of mousse.

Problem solved.

You head up the team - at 60K per day I think you'll be busy.

Heh, Heh .. I know a guy who knows a guy and today is as good a day as any to get started.

I'm with ya etalmar!!!

Hey Cliff, I just realized that I reached 100 posts and now have the distinct privilege of being an established member .. drum roll please ... <takes bow>. Thank you all.

WooHoo Congrats

Gee whiz....all I got was a smiley face!

Way to go E!

Thanks very much, Cliff. I also appreciate the nod, Yodap.

I agree, it's too easy for cyber criminals to operate. Now, if someone were to make a device and (or attempt to) harm others, that would be an act of terrorism. In most parts of the world, that would bring a life sentence, or capital punishment.

In principle, what's the difference? Deliberately infecting tens of thousands of computers is terrorizing us, not to count those who steals our personal data. And what happens to those who gets caught? Two years in prison, basically a slap on the wrist, no deterrence at all.

And who really loves this? The AV industry, a multi billion dollar per year pile of companies who just looks to contain the crap, rather than eradicate it. And unfortunately, I see nothing changing soon.

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