1. SUPPORT ALERT AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2006

Escalader · Jan 24, 2007

At the following link you will find this years winners selected by
Gizmo
Ian Richards
editor@techsupportalert.com
http://techsupportalert.com/issues/al_current.htm

Here are the Big winner(s) copied and pasted with full acknowledgment to Ian Richards.

1.1 Product of the Year

Joint Winners: SandBoxie and DefenseWall

2006 should have been called "The Year of the 0-day Threat."

0-day threats are security problems involving brand new exploits. Typically these include new virus threats or exploits of previously unknown flaws in computer products.

Normal security products like anti-virus and anti-spyware scanners provide only limited protection against such threats. Your AV program can't fully protect you against a new virus that's not yet in its signature database nor can your anti-spyware program prevent you from being infected by a previously unknown flaw in a product like Microsoft Office.

Unfortunately these threats have recently escalated to unprecedented levels. Hostile web sites that use 0-day threats to secretly infect your PC have proliferated rapidly while new email threats have arisen that only require you to open an HTML email to get infected.

Although the overall level of such threats has increased they are not yet common. Users who surf widely and use P2P networks are currently most at risk. However if the problem continues to escalate, 0-day threats will pose a serious threat to all users in the near future.
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Escalader · Jan 24, 2007

Thanks for the edit Buba, looks good members can link to get whole thing if they want! Well written write up IMHO.

Cheers

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