McAfee: Cold War-Style Computer Attack Likely

[battery]

Argh PC H1N1, lets all shit bricks over nothing. I bet McAfee's double dealing - "oh my how did this pathetic shit of a virus manage to rip all computers 'protected' by our 'antivirus' 'software'*? for the low low cost of $300 you can be 'protected'** from this threat."
*Software: something that uses resources, may or may not have a purpose
**we guarantee nothing.

 

[ssddx]

Something along these lines has been coming (and happening) for quite awhile. I agree that our government should have some sort of plan in place in case of some major attack. The internet is an important resource to power companies and government bodies in case of an accident. This does not mean that it is the only means of communication.

As for the public: users should be maintaining their choice of updated AV and Spyware removal software. The trouble is that many users lack sufficient knowledge to realize why this is required. I will not even point out why our browsing habits put at us at risk as well. Does anyone remember the estimated US-Botnet numbers?

 

[tarquinbiscuitbarrel]

i'd better start stocking up on porn.

 

[marsax73]

This article is lame! McAfee is a complete drain on the resources.

 

[lvlouro]

YEAH, I knew all those hours spent on FPSs would some day be of some use

 

[plasmastorm]

McAfee And symantec are possibly to 2 worst AV products on the market. Doubt any real IT person is going to worry about anything they say.
Christ, even AVG FREE does a better job these days haha.

 

[toastninja17]

Although I have not heard too much on cyberwarfare outside of news sites, I have no doubt that it's been active for quite some time now. I agree with those who say it's some pathetically lame marketing scam using real-world events to sell half-ass AV protection. I use McAfee siteadvisor for firefox, and that's it. My AV is AVG free, and it has never given me any problems and has removed any threats I've had or that it has detected.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]DGriffin[/nom]...its easy.. if there ends up being an issue.. from say Russia... everybody blocks Russia (they do this sort of thing with spam)... then Russia doesn't get any more google.. or facebook.. or anything hahahaha... im not worried[/citation]

Interesting Fact:
Gotta stop the Akamai Servers from caching Google or Facebook first...anybody who knows about Akamai servers knows the technical details...in short, if Russia was to search for www.google.com would not hit (most likely not) the Google servers of America but Akamai server somewhere near them ;-)

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]Interesting Fact:Gotta stop the Akamai Servers from caching Google or Facebook first...anybody who knows about Akamai servers knows the technical details...in short, if Russia was to search for www.google.com would not hit (most likely not) the Google servers of America but Akamai server somewhere near them ;-)[/citation]

I'm sorry, spoke too soon. I knew about Akamai servers but didn't mention that you have to be a customer with them so it would be up to Google or whoever to cease access...

 

[mayne92]

We need the implementation of adaptive security control not JUST signatures. The only reason why Norton and McAfee are popular is because companies like Walmart and Dell push them onto people (Dell preinstalls them and Walmart only sells them). Tests show that they are just not that great compared to other programs out there. Since marketers seems to influence people with scares and unnecessary "needs", I wouldn't be surprised if these AV companies had something to do with these attacks/virus/malware etc. So do people who are working on their desktop have Netflix popups think that malware just wanted to promote Netflix for free? It's annoying and consistent advertisement is what it is. I have seen websites (was ~5+ years back) that offer renting services for malware with discounts for bulk-bundled purchases. Never rule out the possibilities ;-)

 

[bad_code]

Nice!
Now that there are fewer jobs in technology and a lot of jobs have been outsourced to china and India, we have few people in the US with the computer savvy skills like we used to. Sometimes you will read about some unknown virus causing problems and the first country to figure out what it is, is not the US. We have been slowing giving our jobs away along with the need to college grads to have such skills. Luckily we have some of the best still here in the US, but watch those commercials from intel and other large tech companies. Who are they? Are they US citizens ? Or from india and china?

 

[tester24]

How funny it would be that all these buildups of cybersecurity turned out to be one giant counterstrike LAN party?

 

[anamaniac]

The comments on this are quite entertaining. =D

I don't even use a AV.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]bad_code[/nom]Nice! Now that there are fewer jobs in technology and a lot of jobs have been outsourced to china and India, we have few people in the US with the computer savvy skills like we used to. Sometimes you will read about some unknown virus causing problems and the first country to figure out what it is, is not the US. We have been slowing giving our jobs away along with the need to college grads to have such skills. Luckily we have some of the best still here in the US, but watch those commercials from intel and other large tech companies. Who are they? Are they US citizens ? Or from india and china?[/citation]

Yeah, my undergrad minor in information technology got dropped before I could finish (1 class left). Different school for my graduate IT...gets combined with information systems because of too few people.

 

[NegativeX]

Skynet will protect us...