ZeroPoint is the malware cure that could be worse than the disease

ZeroPoint is the malware cure that could be worse than the disease

Dec 9th 2013, 16:43, by Russell Brandom

The internet is, on balance, a very hostile place. More than 70 percent of all email traffic is spam, and a fair portion of that is malware and phishing attempts. One 2012 census counted 1.5 billion browser-based malware attacks. A recent Team Cymru map of globally compromised computers showed nearly all of Italy lit up, with southeastern Europe glowing from the sheer quantity. None of this is particularly dangerous if you take modest measures to protect your computer, but it's a strange state of nature — and an expensive one. Most appraisals put the global cost of malware in the tens of billions. Antivirus solutions mostly protect individual nodes or networks, shifting the attacks around but doing little to combat the core of the...
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