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3 commentsMonday, January 12, 2009

User-Generated Content Sites Pose Security Threats

Blended threats increasing

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Microsoft should take actions

I think the best way is to ask Microsoft to improve their antivirus softwareand firewall software. Most OS are windows so Microsoft know the best to fix the bugs in the operating system.

Change Antivirus scheme

Idea:

Require Microsoft and Apple to implement a full-system antivirus/whatever functionality that integrates into every facet of the system and is included *free* with the operating system. This might help automatically set up people who don't understand the need or might not want to pay other companies for some seemingly unnecessary addition. That's the only way I see hunkering down on things and having a system that would quickly repair loopholes and other vulnerabilities. It should be deemed a defect in the operating system to not have this in place.

Yeah, uh huh, we'll see

I find most malware that

I find most malware that gets on PCs comes from javascript that exploits security holes.

For downloading stuff, there's always been the risk that some unknown file is a virus, since the 90s and earlier.

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