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Heron

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Who's at risk tomorrow?


I'm doing a Norton full scan right now. Did I have to worry, you geeks out there? emoticon

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Re: Who's at risk tomorrow?


You're referring to this, right, Cindy?

Yikes, I Dunno! emoticon

Okay, I just did their test. Shows GREEN. Seems my computer is good to go. emoticon

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From ThreatPost

"Or, to use a public health analogy: we're good at identifying and treating the sick, but not so good at preventing future infections and laying the groundwork for a healthier society.

This shouldn't be a surprise: public health officials struggled with the exact same problem trying to stamp out virus outbreaks a century ago. In the most famous case, Mary Mallon, a.k.a "Typhoid Mary," infected 53 people with typhus while working as a cook in the New York area in the first decades of the 20th century. But public health officials had a difficult time convincing Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of Typhus, to submit to medical tests that would confirm her role in the outbreak, or getting her to stop working as a family cook.

Eventually, the New York City health inspector took the (then) unprecedented steps of arresting Mallon and quarantining her on North Brother Island off Manhattan for three years. Even after Mallon was released from quarantine in 1910 on the promise that she would no longer work as a cook, health officials weren't able to prevent her from changing her name and again finding employment as a household cook - infecting another 25 people with typhus -one fatally - in 1915, after which she was arrested and placed in quarantine for the last time.

Like public health officials battling typhus outbreaks, the government, ISPs, security companies and others with a stake in halting outbreaks and infections online are still struggling to find the right tools for combating malware and outbreaks, that also respect the rights of individuals and companies."

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What we all can do is install anti-malware software on our computers and keep it updated. It really is simple these days, so there's no excuse for not having some form of digital condom on your system. Even Microsoft's free Security Essentials does a good job for the average computer.

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Yep, there really is no excuse not to have Anti-malware and Anti-virus on your machines .... even Mac users (don't think you are immune, ignorance is not an excuse and if I have to fix it, I will charge you for it emoticon ).

Had to get rid of the Met Police trojan scareware off my neighbours PC last night .. that was fun emoticon

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Good point about Macs. And Linux. Even if a piece of malware won't affect those systems, it can get passed along in an email, or on a usb stick, etc.

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Silkie what's the best (least offensive) anti-malware/virus thingy for Macs these days? emoticon

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The three (for me) main ones are Avast, Sophos and ClamXav, all are free and all do more or less the same thing.

As much as i'd avoid recommending them on the PC (as they try to invade everything you do), on the Mac, I believe Sophos has a very good following.

I'll be honest, I haven't yet installed one on my mac :/ I know I was shouting about it only a few posts ago so consider my wrists slapped for that.

Looking at the three on offer, i'd swing for Sophos as a good starting point.

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