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Story: MyDoom's spread sparks antivirus critique
Posted by: George M Monaghan (Tuesday 10 February 2004, 2:51 PM)
I was one of the first to be infected with my doom despite having all the layers of protecion inplace.
The first came from an educational establishment and I was very wary of opening an attachment that arrived unexpectedly.
I checked with my anti-virus vender (AVG) and then with Symantec labs - no knowledge of my doom on their systems.
Opened file and even then my anti-virus did not protect me.
We need another system of early warning or layer of software to protect us.
My-doom was encrypted so could not be easily read and that is partly to blame for my decision to open it, it looked harmless when the header and body were read prior to opening.
what do we do - ban all atachemnts from e-mails?
Any good software writers out there with a better idea on what we can do to protect the internet and our e-mail system before the mail system itself is not trusted?
Cheers,
George Monaghan
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