Today is april fools day... and no jokes are moving around in each companies IT dept. All of us are hard pressed to prepare for the conficker malware virus which is stated to attack all unpatched system on April 1 2009.
Granted that we have step up efforts to get all machines patched but it is next to impossible. The lucky thing is all these while we have have patching our system especially those that are new. Our current process required us to patched all new machines to the latest patches of that day. plus we also locked down machines to Univac standards.
But on the whole, users need to 1) have a updated anti-virus system, 2)a updated anti-spyware software like spybot or windows defender, 3) a updated fully patched windows system (since windows is used by most homes and companies) and lastly if the user is tech savvy enough, a firewall like comodo firewall which provides some additional level of security. That handles the technology items. While we can have the latest systems, all is useless if users ourselves do not practice safe computing habits, like opening of all email attachments even those whom we do not know, downloading unknown software with the false promise of speeding up our machines etc.
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