Slow, crash-prone, and loaded with spyware and adware popups, and the user will still click it all away, agreeing to anything just so they can check their bank to see if they can afford that Dancing Bunny on ebay. The “background noise” of the Internet is due to millions of virus or trojan (zombie) Windows machines. The OS should not be *that* vulnerable to begin with. If a virus hit on Sunday morning, no one would notice anything out of the ordinary.įew pay it.
One of the major servers is being scanned for viruses. When its uninstaller does not fail, much is still left behind.Īt work, Sunday morning is filled with tech calls regarding lockups and slowdowns. This causes system instability, incredible slowdowns and in most cases it can not be removed by its own uninstaller. Many people have Norton (not Symantec) installed on their home computers for protection. Don’t have the source or really lazy? Compress the executable and you’ll find again that most anti-virus scanners fail to see it.Ībsolutely can not work when there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of new additions to the list *daily*. Too much trouble? Recompile it – chances are this “new” compiled version will also not be detected since it isn’t exactly like the one on record. A few small changes and this “new” virus is invisible to almost all virus scanners. Most viruses source code is readily available online. The last one I have shows Kaspersky rather effective at 99%.įor Symantec, the most popular antivirus in the world, that is a fantastic double digit failure rate of 17%. used to run extensive tests on detection rates of all anti-virus software and publish monthly results.
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