Once upon a time, the process of protecting your PC against viruses was simply to install an anti-virus program, and be careful about which floppy disks and CD-ROMs you introduced to it. Then we all got Internet access, and you needed to make sure you didn’t download anything dodgy, while adding a firewall to your PC to dissuade hackers. And for a while, that seemed sufficient.
How times have changed – and with ever-increasing rapidity, too. These days, the threats keep coming, finding ever more inventive ways of getting through defences, using trickery as much as anything else. But however hard the hackers fight, the security folk fight back, helping to develop new forms of protection, removal and repair to thwart the cybercriminals.
As it has been since the beginning,…
