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Original Post: Why viruses won't die
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The Register tells us why the scourge of viruses won't end anytime soon:
Was the vector some l337 0-day 'sploit? Nope. Was it a complex multi-layer program leveraging several unpatched vulnerabilities? Nope. It was -- wait for it -- an executable attachment in an email. What genius! The author of Novarg (or MyDoom, or whatever you want to call it) really put his noodle to the test when he cooked this one up, huh?
So long as we have users that will open anything they get sent in email, we'll have this problem. Even better anti-virus systems won't help much here - the sorts of users that will open anything are highly unlikely to install (and keep updated) an anti-virus system. Sigh...
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