To Prevent or Not to Prevent! That is the question!Yeah, is it?
Yep! It is.
What are you preventing? Global Warming?
No Silly… the Alien invasion! That’s what we are preventing…
Ok, be serious now.. come on.. tell me what is it you are talking about?
Honestly, we are going to
Well, we all know (or should know), that there is no 100% security! (of course people might try to take this out of context and apply this to tiny subsets of an overall problem and claim it can be 100% secure but its a futile attempt as you have to look
Phishing, Pharming, Spyware, Viruses, Spam, Spear Phishing, is only some of the threats that banks and us the ordinary people face! Money is the easily usable, convertible, valuable material we all own (well some of us have more than the others and they should learn to let the human race benefit from
People keep asking me:
Is AV dead? Is HIPS the ultimate solution? Are we going to need to have chips surgically implanted in our…”
Okay, let’s not degenerate this in the first fifty words. I’d like to start with some facts about the state of software security for PCs.
1. The world
What is a firewall?Let’s start with the Webopedia definition:
(fīr´wâl) (n.) A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks