Cybercrooks ramp up against antivirus firms--and each other

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Virus, malware in general

Recently something appeared to have gotten into my news, mail and music system and was stealing ids and passwords. I recently retired after working for 40 years in the computer business. If I can't keep the 7 systems that I run clean, how on earth can none professionals? One of the only suggestions, I have seen, which was made as I recall by Jerry Pournell, that I think might work is to let some group like the IRA kneecap the cyber criminals in return for a small fee from all of us who have had it. (I picked on the IRA as I am part Irish myself but the mafia would also do.) Governments seem completly useless in this regards. Am going to take one clean system and fully protect it (Win XP uptodate or Linux, NIS, an off brand browser, no scripting...), but keep it powered down or off my hard wired net most of the time, except when I am doing something online that is financial in nature. This is the one thing that could force me to learn Unix and abandon Windows at least for some systems on my net. Gee maybe that would be a good use for one of my useless copies of OS/2, to run on my financial system, probably no one makes malware for that system. I could hide it behind one of my windows systems running NIS and scan its disks with dual boot or virtualized NT 2K Pro running NIS on the same hardware. Besides NIS the router has a hardware firewall that gives some protection when trying to debug networking or during system installs. I really want to do other things than play systems programmer on my home net!

Posted by: gingoro   Posted on: 04/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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