Are We Ever Protected From Computer Viruses?

I"ve been reviewing, testing and comparing anti-virus software for several years

now and have come to a conclusion that anti-virus programs fail more often than they succeed in protecting you from bad things on the Internet. Our testing showed more than half of the active threats on the Internet routinely go undetected.

Scareware, "Canadian Pharmacy" spam, adult sites, and comment spam on forums and blogs have plagued the web and email world of most people in the past few years. But what links these things together? And who is behind them?

The first serious book about spam and spammers that he read was Spam Kings by Brian S. McWilliams in 2004. In this, the "pioneers" of the email spam industry ran their businesses in a small family way. Relying on nothing more than help from their relatives, they handled the entire process chain themselves: harvesting email addresses, authoring message content, sending bulk emails, processing orders, rapidly switching their Internet service providers and, at a later stage, running from the FBI or being jailed.

Since then, many countries have established anti-spam laws governing the use of email communications and marketing. While legislation was not expected to eliminate spam and make spammers extinct, it did criminalize their activities, making them a punishable offence and as a result a much riskier endeavor to engage in.

I also believe that affiliate web marketing has also been the main driving force behind the recent explosion in malware, website infections, email spam and general web pollution.

In testing AVG Anti-Virus 2009, we found that these two popular consumer Web site health checking tools only blocked or warned against malicious sites 43% and 4% of the time, respectively. That suggests the new generation of antivirus protection just entering the market can't get here fast enough.

by: AVG Anti-Virus crazy

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