Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Tue Jun 5 07:21:14 CDT 2012
Hans-Christian, Thanks for posting this article. Yes, this is pretty scary. One of the comments was that no system could be trusted after it has had a virus infection, so a complete reinstall of the OS is necessary. Another said that may not be enough, since it could even hide in some BIOS. This leads me to a bunch of worry. While I'm considered a tech whiz around here, that's mainly because of the ambient level of tech-savviness. I'm a "middling" good tech. I'm responsible for the machines in my home office-classroom, and my extended household. I've cleaned several of them - a couple more than once - a few times finally resorting to snagging all the data my family member really wanted to keep, then flattening the hard-drive and reinstalling everything. If that's not enough, WOW! I don't know very many people who can afford to simply discard the current computer and buy a new one. I'm wondering why FLAME wasn't detected sooner, and how will the AV industry redeem itself (if that's possible). One comment suggested that for security's sake we should keep our data off the computer! Hmm - after all the work we've done to get data computerized for easy access, there must be another way to protect it. I'm really not ready to go back to hand-scanning reams of paper data. T Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com 231-322-2787 On 6/5/2012 2:29 AM, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > http://www.scmagazineuk.com/failure-to-detect-flame-marks-the-end-of-signature-based-anti-virus/article/243505/ > > “It's no secret that there is a huge industry devoted to bypassing anti-virus. Flame, we hope, will help serve as a key event that compels organisations to rethink their security spend. Turns out the UN is warning member states about Flame. Let's hope ‘updating your anti-virus' isn't one of the recommendations.” > > Can't help but feel like this day was a long time coming… well, it actually happened already, we just didn't notice at the time. > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >