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Story: Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms

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Commenting on this survey, Mike Fenton, director at Network Box UK said:

"This survey shows that conventional anti-virus software is not providing the protection that UK companies need. This is because effective protection requires around the clock monitoring and updating which can be both difficult and prohibitively expensive for a organisation to achieve on its own. In this environment, businesses should consider remotely-managed Internet security protection, which automatically blocks new viruses the moment a signature is released rather than when clients poll for updates." -- Mike Fenton, director, Network Box UK.

Remotely-managed appliances such as the Network Box can overcome the problem of updating virus protection. For example, with Bugbear in June 2003, Network Box blocked the virus heuristically before any anti-virus companies had signatures, and then once it was fully isolated (3 1/2 hours later), signatures were written, tested, and all Network Box customers globally updated within 30 minutes.

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