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Anti-virus Software: The Challenge of Being Prepared for Tomorrow's MalWare Today

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Anti-virus Software: The Challenge of Being Prepared for Tomorrow's MalWare Today (PDF, 1.65MB)Published: 17 Oct, 2001
Created by:
Lisa Galarneau

Defending ourselves against MalWare - obviously a daunting task since depending on your preferred source of information there are between 30,000 and 63,000 known 'viruses' out there! As discouraging as this may sound there is also no shortage of good advice on how to establish some lines of defense and how to recover if your defenses fail. One of the common themes in this advice is to select and deploy at least one and possibly more Anti-virus Software packages.