At CeBit 2007, Hannover, Germany, The experts said that winning the war against pernicious software could not be feasible. Addressing the mega event last week, Eugene Kaspersky or Russia’s Kaspersky Labs maintained that if the increase in malware keep on going at the present speed, manufacturers of anti-virus software could not be capable of withstanding the attack.
Harsh words in fact. As no security purveyor guarantees supreme and foolproof security, the pure magnitude of pernicious software coming out is leading security companies to their own Thermopylae. Kaspersky competitor F-Secure threw light on the flood of mali-cious software purporting it is capable of getting more than 40,000 tainted file submissions some days.
F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said:
How can we deal with this avalanche.” “This is not just a battle between manufacturers of security software and some internet criminals. It is a war between good and evil.
Kaspersky compared the clash between anti-virus purveyors and pernicious software designers in terms of a “spooky arms race” where the hackers are incongruent and out of sight, and advised a method of dealing with the crisis could be through the establishment of a UN body that would function as “a sort of internet Interpol” .
