Thanks NIS for protecting my computer today.
Off doing my usual internet business, playing on Kongregate, and a recent attempt to attack my computer was blocked. Hooray for developers injecting trojan downloaders in to the code of their games, which aren't detected by Kongregate before they are released in to the wild.
Just a little bit of recent history for you:
Only about a year ago, Kongregate was hit by a mass advertising attack, which infected most computers who went on the site with a nasty rogue anti-virus. I, for one, and many others, were not affected by this pandemic, which had all been caused by an advertising company accepting a nasty advert, thanks to the intelligence of buying a good internet security suite.
I, and many others, hate malware because of it's recent tendency to destroy anything it likes to destroy, and it destroys alright. It destroys all your data, your friends' data, yo momma's data, any data. It can even lock you out of your system with the use of a line or two of code.
Back in the 1970's, when computers had only been out for a couple of years and networking was almost new, with ARPANET going strong, the Creeper virus was released, which did barely any, if any at all, damage to the computer infected with it, and thus was not really malware in the same sense it is nowadays.
Nowadays, AV companies have millions of signatures for files that are malicious.
They're developing new technology, some of which is claimed to be perfect, which isn't, and some are tested and under-estimated.
On the other hand, malware developers are only getting smarter, and they always make something that is a new advance. They may release a website with a piece of malware on, then instantly get it shut down. What did they do then? They bought or created bullet-proof hosting, so the government couldn't shut them down.
Malware is one of the most annoying software types on the planet. I hope this has given you some insight in to this topic, and I better now make a bootable CD. See ya later.
