There is news you can hardly find in your daily paper or even on the Internet: a discussion of exactly why viruses and worms can infect your computer, how much this is hurting business and personal productivity, and what should be done differently so that we can continue to compute on our desktops without this scourge.

The latest threat, and it could be a biggie, is in this article: Windows PCs Face ‘Huge’ Virus Threat, on the Financial Times Web site. Now any picture can be a “dirty picture,” or actually a dirty bomb, dropping a virus into your computer if you just look at it.

This has really gone too far. The general assumption is that it has to be this way, that we are being victimized by all those criminals or evil people out there (many of whom may be children!).

We need to search more deeply for the source of this plague, both within ourselves and within our computers.

And here is a good way to go about it:
PC Security: The Virus Is In The Blood.

[tags]windows,spyware,security,malware,virus[/tags]