| Some statistics says 2 millions viruses or variants of | | | | example. mozilla.com, the official site of Firefox |
| them are created every year. We try to protect | | | | browser, offered two infected add-ons for |
| against them with common methods as installing an | | | | downloading in 2009 year. |
| AntiVirus, a Firewall and eventually an AntiMalware or | | | | Hackers were in the past concerned with creating |
| AntiSpyware and the question is how well can these | | | | computer damages, now they are focused on financial |
| programs protect us. Other statistics says they can | | | | gain, their programs are deeply hidden inside your |
| protect us and prevent computer infections in a | | | | computer stealing your emails or bank accounts, credit |
| reasonable percent if it's about known | | | | cards details, in fact stealing your life. |
| malware(trojans, viruses, worms, web malware and so | | | | For who have doubts about all these and think they |
| on) and almost not at all if it's about unknown malware. | | | | are well protected by their Antivirus, I've uploaded an |
| That's because of the way the AntiViruses operate, | | | | image of a hackers view on an infected computer |
| based on viruses signatures and some heuristics. If we | | | | with an RAT-Remote Administration Tool grabbed |
| are talking about newly created viruses or versions | | | | from a forum. A hacker can view in his trojan Control |
| slightly modified of them, the viruses signatures can not | | | | Panel the capture of a webcam installed in an infected |
| help us very much and the heuristic method of | | | | computer, he has access to all the files drives or |
| detecting malware can also be bypassed easy by a | | | | registry in the infected computer and he has full |
| good virus programmer. | | | | access to the running processes in the infected |
| We can be better protected against viruses with a | | | | computer and can simply kill any process including an |
| suite of infection preventing methods, some programs, | | | | AntiVirus process, or he can choose to run any |
| knowing some tips about how the files are infected | | | | executable he wants in the computerand more he can |
| with malware and not the last with a adequate | | | | pass arguments to them. |
| behaviour on the Internet. No need to stress you with | | | | For these reasons I made an site trying to describe |
| the fact the Internet is a jungle(like the real world) | | | | several tips for preventing computer infections and |
| where very often you can meet cyber criminals. | | | | there is also a big collection of Security Freeware |
| Even reputable sites like The New York Times site or | | | | programs. |
| can serve us malware by an error. See here for | | | | |