November 30, 2010

Social Networks Facilitate Spread of Virus

now increasingly worried about the spread of the virus. The presence of social networks also facilitate the spread of the virus. This is quite worrying because of social networking users in Indonesia is quite high.
Therefore, many computer security experts urged users of social networking to remain cautious in using it.
"Right now everything is very supportive to the presence of criminals in cyberspace. The target of the virus no longer developed for the organization but becomes more personal. What personal information into highly-publicized social networking presence.
"So this opens social networking opportunities for the criminalization of cyberspace in the launch attacks on targets they were after," said Stefan Tanase, Senior Research Kaspersky Lab in Bali some time ago.
Tanase pointed out, had robbed a house because the owner writes the status on social networking that he would be traveling for two weeks.
For that one of the founders up to say he had never received friends at social networking with someone who is not familiar in the real world. Therefore get to know the true friend who is on social networks. Because it can carry the virus and the impact is less good.
To deal with virus attacks from this direction, Tanase reveal that it takes a fairly proactive protection technologies. For that, Kaspersky Lab is developing a product that is named Sandbox. This product is able to separate each data and internet access which is owned by the user.

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