Sarah Gordon, senior principal engineer of Symantec Security Response, is an expert on the psychology of virus writers. She serves as a director for The WildList Organization International, an independent source of information for “in the wild” viruses. She is also technical director at EICAR, an international non-profit group that combines numerous organizations to unite efforts against the writing and proliferation of malicious code, computer crime and fraud, and exploitation of personnel data on computers or networks.
Adware and spyware – they may be as hard to define as they are to
eradicate. But there’s one thing just about everyone can agree on: what
started as a minor annoyance has ballooned into a full-blown corporate
headache.
How big of a headache? According to the most recent edition of the Symantec
Internet Security Threat Report, adware is a growing concern. Between January
1 and June 30, 2004, adware made up 4 percent of the top 50 malicious code
reports to Symantec. Between July 1 and Dec. 31, it made up 5 percent of the
top 50 reports. As for spyware, the most common program during the second
half of 2004 was Webhancer, which alone represented 38 percent of the top 10
spyware programs reported.
This growing concern about adware and spyware has put enterprises a... (more)
Sarah Gordon, senior principal engineer of Symantec Security Response, is an expert on the psychology of virus writers. She serves as a director for The WildList Organization International, an independent source of information for “in the wild” viruses. She is also technical director at EICAR, an international non-profit group that combines numerous organizations to unite efforts against the writing and proliferation of malicious code, computer crime and fraud, and exploitation of personnel data on computers or networks.
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