a750828 2007-7-15 21:39
電腦病毒二十五歲生日快樂
[url]http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/070715/1/hayl.html[/url]
用電腦的人最痛恨的電腦病毒已經滿二十五歲了。
第一個電腦病毒「麋鹿複製」是一個美國高中生設計出來，純粹是好玩的。後來網際網路流行了，電腦病毒傳布的速度就快了。一九八八年出現的「莫瑞斯病毒」則是第一個藉著電腦病毒快速傳播的病毒。
現在電腦病毒無孔不入，甚至還帶動了所謂的電腦防毒業。使用電腦的人以前只要把錢交給電腦軟體業者，現在還得把錢交給電腦防毒業者。
harry_chang2003 2007-7-15 23:48
更詳細的報導
轉自TrendLabs blog
[url=http://blog.trendmicro.com/computer-viruses2c-25-years-going/]Computer Viruses, 25 Years Going[/url]
A co-researcher Richard Ford at the Florida Institute of Technology’sCollege of Engineering and Computer Sciences wrote in an article to [url=]Science Magazine[/url]’s July issue that the first computer virus was created 25 years ago, but sees no end in sight to malicious software.
John Timmer similarly writes his take on this [url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070712-happy-birthday-to-the-computer-virus.html%22]article[/url].
Myself,I say take a step back. Consider that the drive was to make computers ahousehold appliance. Even better, getting a driver’s license means youknow how to operate a car and know the dangers on the road. Driverslisten to the radio for traffic changes, we watch the news to know theweather in relation to how we should drive. Thats being proactive, itsbeing vigilant against the unknown dangers on the road. Agree?
Ilike Science as a magazine, and even better the fact that they can talkabout the chilling reality of the human paradigm — expectations ontechnology versus the immediate reality of the threat. That same humanparadigm does not want to hear the sad truth that it is gullable andstupid unless better informed and armed with relevant information. Sowhy are computer users, and similarly users of technology not takingthe time to pore through security forums on a daily basis proactivelyto be well informed? There is a huge disjoint here.
Para-phrasingDavid P’s own sentiments that malware used to be likened to onlinegraffiti, even in today’s physical reality some individual’s penchantto write on subways and public walls has not abated — neither has crimeand fraud in its smallest form even if neighborhood police and secretservice are just around the corner. Has anyone watched last year’smovie “The Good Shepherd”? This month of July celebrates the 60th yearof the CIA. It is as live today as it was then, simply because thedangers have also changed!
That said, it looks like theanti-malware (anti-threat) community will be as vibrant as ever. Itisn’t like a couple of years ago where we saw ourselves ascyber-firemen. Being passive does not catch the bad guys, it is asreactive as all the old passive technologies like IDS and IPS. Eversince malware has taken to cyber-crime, without everyone in thesecurity field knowing it we have all become cyber-sleuths and productsand services have become the online police.
In this day andage solutions like network behavior monitoring, as well as trafficrepudiation and analysis are the new tools. Self defending networks arefine too, but these should always be tempered and fine tuned to adaptto the computer user’s changing appetite for content and technology.
P.S.
Takeanother trip to YouTube (make sure its the main site, not a trojanmasquerading as a codec) and watch the sci-fi online flick [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/AfterworldTV]Afterworld[/url]. See how the story unfolds while Rus Shoemaker copes with a world bereft of technology.