Best Offense is Still a Good Defense

Today I've been reading survey after survey about the growing deadliness of today's malware (malicious software). As one report succinctly summed it up, today's malware is "stealthier, more complex and harder to identify and defend against."

One of the doors these cybercriminals use to get access to corporate servers is "greyware." The following comes from Wikipedia explaining greyware: Greyware gets into a corporate network when users download legitimate software that includes greyware applications in the installation package. Greyware applications often use ActiveX controls.

Most software programs include an End User License Agreement (EULA), which the user has to accept before downloading. Often the EULA does include information about the additional greyware application and its intended use to collect personal data; however, users often overlook this information or do not understand the legal terminology describing the application.

So you see, usually it's right in the users agreement (I can even imagine how many users agreements I haven't read, as I didn't read them).

So the best way to prevent against this scourge, which in turns adds to the botnet problem, which in turn continues our spam problem, is to keep it off your system.

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