A Central Repository for Virus Information? 26
four12 asks: "I've been doing more work lately with network security and tightening things up. My new employer has been pretty lax over the years with such things and has come to the realization that their luck has to be wearing thin. I have noticed an dissonance of information between the various virus information sites. McAfee will have a 'prolific' worm listed, but Symantec and Trend say nothing about it and vice versa. It makes me wonder first of all, is my anti-virus system catching things as fast as the other systems? Is there a place that I can go that digests the latest threats and information down in to a nice, clean webpage? I already have too many listserv subscriptions and don't want to wade through a dozen webpages trying to correlate what is out there."
CERT (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The grammar of your post is annoying (Score:1)
An inflection point for Outlook? (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't Rely Exclusivly on Anti-Virus! (Score:4, Informative)
Some people think that a properly created worm/virus could spread over the entire available host populations in under 15 min from release.
More Info Worhal Virus [berkeley.edu]
Add atachement mangeling, removal, and remove vunerable email client for example; Outlook with with it's own exploits and it's embeded HTML (Explorer) with it's own list of exploits are unacceptable for a networked computing environment.
Re:Don't Rely Exclusivly on Anti-Virus! (Score:1)
Windows Update (Score:3, Insightful)
Beyond that, it's a race between Microsoft patching bugs and the anti-virus companies detecting the exploits.
Re:Windows Update (Score:1)
One anti-virus? (Score:2)
If you're getting into the security ballgame you may wind up looking at various sources as a matter of fact. Going with the multi-layered defense, I routinely go to two anti virus sites, one RAT/Trojan site, and a hoax site [www.vmyths.com]. We also block any executable at the gateway, that cuts the majority of your problem there [none of our users need those kinds of files].
isnt that wat usenet and kazza are? (Score:3, Funny)
US Dept of Energy website (Score:4, Informative)
Pretty comprehensive across platforms, OSs, viruses, hoaxes, buffer overflows...
Best of all, they're not trying to sell you something.
IntelliShield (Score:2, Informative)
TruSecure [trusecure.com] IntelliShield [trusecure.com] is one such service, but it is not free. It pulls together information about a vulnerability from various vendors, mailing lists, and such, and puts it all under one issue. It also has alerts and a shared task list for managing your organization's response to a vulnerability. The alerts can be useful given the fast-spreading nature of recent worms. The task list is less u
Ethically ironic isn't it: (Score:3, Insightful)
- MS's poorly designed and implemented product is the primary cause we have a virus problem (80,000 + viruses at last count);
- first thing I see when I log onto
Doh, I forgot: Raking in cash is better than taking the high ground and considering one'
s actions and behavior in the context of ethical social behavior.
Guess
Re:Ethically ironic isn't it: (Score:2)
Seriously though, justifying unethical behavior just because it's "business" is pure BS (that's bullshit, not to be confused with B.S. though many say there is a direct corelation between the two.
Thanks for the information about getting the subscription though, that was interesting and possibly useful provided I don't log in and see MicroShiite advertising for their latest attempt to cheat the fools and suckers of the world.
As for the great site -- it was, c
Re:Ethically ironic isn't it: (Score:1)
Now, the advertising revenue is smaller and real value has to be considered. Is it worth more to you to not have
Take the weight off... (Score:1)
They recommend using a conventional anti-virus solution to catch the 2% of viruses coming into your establishment on portable media, but they'll keep your mail pretty damn clean.
I don't work for them (my partner used to work for part of the same outfit),
Re:Take the weight off... (Score:2, Informative)
A friend of mine used Messagelabs during his last job in the UK and he reckons that they are the best thing out there. Over eighteen months he had ZERO virus hits on a sixty-user site and this was during the Code Red / Nimda boom times.
Speak to Messagelabs
Ed Almos
or... (Score:2)
When I went to speak to Sophos at a show, they actually took me to Sybari's stand :)