Statistically speaking, today is when online viruses and worms are at their most rampant. Hell, as if it's not bad enough that is Monday, why not log off and simply come back tomorrow? Better for your computer, better for you. :) After analysing information on viruses and internet worms taken from more than 500,000 machines around the world, security experts at PC Tools have pinpointed November 24 as the ... Read full entry

Now here's something many of us may not take into account when trying to comprehend the, for want of a better word, logic of people who write computer viruses. "Why do people create viruses?". I was excited about answering this question because it is much deeper than most people think. At face value, it is easy to peg viruses as nasty little annoyances designed to wreak havoc on your hard ... Read full entry

Whitelists rather than blacklists may be the future of network and computer security, according to IT experts. Whitelisting is the process by which only pre-approved applications are able to execute on a network - while unknown and unwanted ones are blocked. It is the opposite of today's approach - by which applications are free to run unless an administrator has moved to block them. Today's blacklisting approach, says AusCert general ... Read full entry