Knock, Knock, Knock

Knock, Knock, Knock
Kelly Martin, 2004-02-20

If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors?

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Knock, Knock, Knock 2004-02-20
Dmitriy (1 replies)

" If we cannot prevent the average user from double-clicking the latest virus in his email, how will we ever stop the propagation of more advanced, stealthy code? "

- With more advanced security software (IDS, firewalls, virus scanners...etc...).

There will allways be stupid people and thus stupid/ignorant/careless computer users. Now they are clicking email attachments, in 20 years they'll be activating malicious virtual holo-attachements or whatever. The software needs to evolve to meet the new kinds of threats.

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