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The State of Malware

The State of Malware

I've been spending a little more time looking at general computer and network security recently. One of the things I've been looking at is the current 'state of affairs' where malware is concerned. There's a lot going on out there, although as Gunnar Peterson says in a recent post at 1 Raindrop, not much has changed in the past 10 years. In fact, based on what follows, it's arguable that things are actually getting worse.

There are also regional differences that matter. Here in Thailand at least, the situation is exacerbated by the fact that it's still very common for personal computers to have illegal software installed - including Windows and other major applications (there are reasons, but that's a different story). There are of course other threats and concerns about safety and communication that matter, but for the most part, the biggest computer security risk here is from non-targeted malware.

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