Internet vulnerability

[bobbi]

Do you think that the internet is too vulnerable to virus/trojan attacks?

 

[deadserious]

The internet will have its good side and its bad side. Let's hope the good will continue to way out that bad. There's always going to be risk involved, but I think the over all security needs improvement.

Alot of things on the internet now days are made for convenience and security is often over looked. I think security should be first and convenience second!

 

[bobbi]

I agree, security is way overlooked and it needs alot of work.

One article that I read today about the "Slammer" worm said that I think it was over 3,000 companies had not patched the microsoft patch, because they hadn't received the info about the patch or that they had not had time to patch it.

 

[pistol]

I don't know if we can neccessarily be ready for everything. On the other hand, i think alot of virus/trojan news can be sensationalist(as is the case with most news).

Here is my experience with viruses and trojans.

I worked at an ISP for a while. Most customers who called about having problems with viruses and such had stupidly opened a file attached to an e-mail from someone they had no previous contact to. Most often, the e-mail stated that the attachment was pornography(that is, when they admitted to this). I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to know that you shouldn't open attachments from people who you don't know.

I myself have never really had a problem with viruses. I never have went out of my way to search for them. If i do have any virus or trojan on my computer, i haven't suffered any adverse affects as a result of it. I'm not neccessarily reccomending this to anyone, because it's out of pure laziness, I assure you.

If anything, the real thing that fights viruses is knowledge, not software.