Food for thought? The only thing worse than viruses - is virus protection software. And the only thing worse than virus protection software - is free virus protection software. As an ex-web designer I still field a number of support requests from people using certain free virus protection software. Not saying the subscription applications are any better though. Whitelists anyone?

Scientists are gearing up to scour wilderness areas and remote regions of Earth in an attempt to track down the remaining unknown varieties of viruses that could potentially pose threat to humanity. "Some of these viruses have very limited impact but others can trigger pandemics," said Dr Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University's centre for infectious diseases. "The purpose of this initiative is to identify viruses before they get a ... Read full entry

The Perfect Storm. An interesting article about the Storm botnet which I briefly mentioned a few weeks ago. The Storm computer virus had been spreading since early in the year, grabbing control of PCs around the world. By now, Storm had infected nearly 5-10 million computers with a secret program that turned those PCs into unwilling slaves (or "zombies") of those controlling this network (or botnet) of computers.Many of you ... Read full entry