Story: Service Pack 2: Patching the unpatchable

Posted by: Barnendu Goswami (Tuesday 20 July 2004, 12:17 PM)

At last!
I was beginning to think I needed commiting to an asylum. Why is the media not addressing this for the rather serious situation it is?

Rupert - thankyou. I'm not what you'ld term a 'newbie'. I learnt it all from the bit and byte, to the where we are now. I've known about trojans, virii, spyware/malware for years, but the last few months have seen spyware evolve to a different plane.

As you have quite rightly identified; these are no longer geeks showing off - without any real malice. We are dealing with seasoned professionals with a commercial pay-off and a specific agenda. They actually don't want the software found...they want it to keep working. Just about every virus ever written, was written to be found, and anyone with an IQ above 20 could 'see' the weaknesses.

What we have here is acompletely different kettle of fish..and nearly all the commercial means of addressing these issues are behind the times.

The industry needs to take this seriously now - and the sooner the better.