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Exploring the World of Malware

Malware is changing. Fortunately, so are security vendors’ approaches
By David Strom
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March 29, 2012 07:30 AM EDT
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As the bad guys get more sophisticated with launching online attacks on your business PCs, you have to get smarter about how you are protecting them.

And in the past year, many of the traditional anti-virus vendors have improved their products by streaming their updates, adding integrated browser protection against phishing and session hijacking, and improving ways to thwart zero-day exploits.

In this story for HP’s Input/Output site, I explore how the world of malware — and the vendors who offer protection — is evolving.

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Published March 29, 2012 – Reads 982
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David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.

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