[Blake]

There is a kind of software that has consistently gotten faster and more powerful, and is available free worldwide. Unfortunately, it is "malicious software," the insidious purveyor of viruses and other threats.

According to the security company Symantec, the overall rate of attack activity from this broad category of high-tech threats - known commonly as malware - rose nearly 20 percent in the last year.

Attacks are spreading more quickly, as well. Viruses used to take months to propagate, and then days. But a worm called Slammer that struck in January "infected 90 percent of the vulnerable systems in just 15 minutes," a Symantec executive, Arthur Wong, said in recent Congressional testimony. more>>

[Dillinja]

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"What consumers are going to be hearing more and more," a spokesman for AOL, Andrew Weinstein, said, "is if you only have a high-speed pipe, you have a high-speed sewage pipe."

Heh, especially if your with AOL! :D

Its true though, as more and more comsumers turn to high speed connections, the amount of probing is going to increase, and the time it takes for a worm to spread will decrease.

A quick glance at your firewall logs tells its own story!

[beardednose]

I run Panda antivirus on one of my PCs (Titanium 7.0) and dog gone it if they didn't up the ante and tweak their software recently to catch SC-Keylogger. Killed it flat out (the stealth properties and the logging so that the keylog control panel popped up when you log in). Oops. Did a hasty removal which required disabling the AV and reinstalling the logger so I could uninstall it (interesting that the kill also prevented the uninstall).

What's the world coming to?

So far, I've only found that Norton and Panda catch this thing. Haven't tried Pest Patrol, but most AV watch it go by.

[FiStEh]

Did you try Kav? i thought they were among the best around. Also, the uni im at uses F-Secur, getting updated every 10 mins and that catches the best of code :P

[Andy]

what's the best anti virus in ur opinion?

i've tried fsecure but didn't like it too much......if there's a virus and it can't remove it, endless numbers of "cannot be repaired, being quarantined" message pops up@@

[SLiM577]

mcaffe is ok norton sucks its so easy to bypass norton.