| The pressures are being poured on us as each day | | | | Worms are in reality a network vulnerability and |
| passes. We are all now becoming more and more | | | | technically are not viruses or spyware but are a |
| aware of IT and its necessities in day to day living. All | | | | means for these baddies to enter your computer etc. |
| this said how is the ordinary Joe Soap to deal with the | | | | There are aspects of your operating system that |
| growing crisis of Internet Security. You have Trojans, | | | | allow access to software updates etc, that are |
| Botnets, Driveby Downloads the list goes on and is | | | | exploited and to keep it simple this exploitation is the |
| growing. | | | | WORM. Once it has access it can then return to the |
| The bottom line for the novice is to remember that | | | | sender this information and from there work out how |
| when you use a hammer to drive a nail, you want to | | | | to manipulate the vulnerability found by the WORM. |
| drive the nail properly but you could not care less | | | | Rootkits are at the moment the worst type of |
| about the hammer, how it was made, the type of | | | | computer vulnerability to be found. Again technically |
| material used to make it etc. etc. This same concept | | | | they are not viruses or spyware but are a means for |
| applies to all these baddies circling your computer and | | | | these baddies to hide and maintain themselves. The |
| the Internet. There are hammers out there to deal with | | | | reason for the worry is that they can in fact become |
| all of them and torturing yourself in trying to figure out | | | | so Rooted, that they become part of the operating |
| how they work etc. is pointless unless you want to | | | | system and this then can be a nightmare to find them. |
| study Computer Science. | | | | Why? Because most anti virus and anti spyware have |
| Trojans are exactly what it says on the tin. They are | | | | to ask the Operating System for its advice on specific |
| hidden code inside other code or program that the | | | | files etc. Just imagine the scenario that Anti Virus |
| user is tricked into thinking is ok. There are numerous | | | | software is asking the Rootkit for advice on finding |
| versions of Trojans using numerous Horses to enter | | | | itself and that is about the size of it. |
| your computer so as to do their dirty deeds. Most of | | | | The good news is that you can protect yourself |
| the Free Anti Virus versions can weed them out by | | | | against all these vulnerabilities if you go about things in |
| studying the code and comparing against what the | | | | the right way. You can use the hammer to nail all of |
| carrier code was initially suppose to do. | | | | these without figuring out the hammer. |