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December 14, 2006

Beware Malware

As a follow-up to my last post, we were having an in-house discussion about the article and one of my co-workers expressed alarm about this statement, “By the end of 2007, 75% of enterprises will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded their traditional perimeter and host defences”

If you are like me and you think you know what is meant by malware but want to be sure here is the definition from Wikipedia

Malware
Malware or malicious software is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. It is a portmanteau of the words “malicious” and “software”. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.

For those of you who hate and distrust Wikipedia here are definitions from two other sources, Webopedia and WhatIs?com . You can also read further discussion and more on Technorati where they claim to have “Everything in the known universe tagged malware.”

posted by Anna at 12:28 pm |

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