Comments on: Greetings...you're infected

Avinti CEO William Kilmer says the industry is late to grasp the challenge of blended threats that are moving viruses from e-mail to the Web.

[chash360]

Like I said dozens of times before....

If certain monopolistic software companies had not violated the original HTML specs, created their own variants, and mass distributed E-Mail clients that automatically execute attached code by default. If they had not strayed from the guidelines and security protocols originally put in place by the DOD. If they were not so keen to have there own back doors into the system through the use of known unchecked buffer boundry errors in system processes (the method by which most malicous code is executed). If they had not done all of these things then the only trouble we would really have to look out for is boot sector virii, which is easy enough to scan for, and protect against.

This article is more AD-Journalism, they are not really going to fix anything...there is to much moeny to be made selling treatments, not cures!

[mbrusl]

Sites that are active in stopping spam

If you could proactively stop spam, would you? I've seen more and more sites that are actually advertising bad domains that are known to be a spammers haven. One such site is Spacequad Anti-Spam Services over at www.spacequad.com and they have mountains of information on spammers, along with discussion forums. Have a look and see for yourself if they can help you figure out if its spam or where it comes from.

[fred dunn]

Conflict of Interest by author....Shame on C|Net

Avinti sells the very product that this author is deeming the Internet's doom.
I can appreciate blended threats and while I agree with most of the article I do think that it is a flagrant conflict of interest and borders on being more of an advertisement. You can bet that Avinti will have reprints of this article and links to it from it's own website:
http://www.avinti.com