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Facing Reality: Online Crooks Up The Ante

Karen Dearne writes on Autralian IT:

Internet service providers and the industry need to do more to secure consumers' PCs, as experts concede strong passwords, regular patching and antivirus software are now of limited value.

With the AusCERT Home Users Computer Survey finding nearly one in four PCs have been infected by malicious software, security heavyweights concede ordinary users can no longer deal with the threats.

AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram said 92 per cent of respondents to the survey believed internet service providers should inform customers when they become aware a user's machine had been infected.

posted by Fergie @ 6/09/2008 10:11:00 PM