[_] Anti virus
Andy Davies
dajdavies at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 11:06:34 BST 2006
On 28/09/06, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> on 28/9/06 10:57, Andy Gale at a.gale at epcdirect.co.uk wrote:
>
> Also, there seem to be far fewer viruses kicking about these days, at
> least
> over email. A year or two ago we were getting thousands per month coming
> in,
> now it's only a couple of hundred (and since we installed ClamAV as a
> secondary filter, a lot of those are phishing attacks rather than actual
> viruses).
>
> I suppose since more and more people are getting virus filters, getting
> control of people's machines via IE exploits and other trojans is a better
> option for the spammers.
Aye, I suspect more people have NAT'd connections to the internet now may
have had an effect too.
>
> on 28/9/06 10:57, Andy Gale at a.gale at epcdirect.co.uk wrote:
>
> Also, there seem to be far fewer viruses kicking about these days, at
> least
> over email. A year or two ago we were getting thousands per month coming
> in,
> now it's only a couple of hundred (and since we installed ClamAV as a
> secondary filter, a lot of those are phishing attacks rather than actual
> viruses).
>
> I suppose since more and more people are getting virus filters, getting
> control of people's machines via IE exploits and other trojans is a better
> option for the spammers.
Aye, I suspect more people have NAT'd connections to the internet now may
have had an effect too.