According to Trend Micro Inc. which is the world’s third largest anti-virus software maker, it cost global businesses an estimated $55 billion in damages from computer virus attacks; an estimation that is expected to rise this year. Lionel Phang, Trend Micro’s Managing Director said the economical and financial impact of virus attacks will continue to climb in 2004. With this information, companies are finally tuning into the damages of viruses and are scrambling daily for updated versions of anti-virus software in order to battle this giant.
Last year, there was almost one major virus attack every month, including the well known “Slammer Worm”, which shutdown Internet service providers
Although, there is more than one way to fight the virus attacks, there is always the importance of updating the anti-virus software. Only the most updated antivirus software will defend a computer’s systems.
• Enables up-to-the-minute protection for mobile clients via "roaming" virus definition update capability.
Also released is a new version of the Mimail e-mail last week. This virus targets customers of eBay Inc’s PayPal online payment system. This virus arrives in e-mail boxes as a message purporting to come from the online payment PayPal. Once opened this virus collects customer’s information such as name and credit card numbers. Virus attacks greatly drain company’s precious resources and have a direct impact on prod
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