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The New Malicious Bacteria

Today, PC users and network operators have to fight off and immunize themselves against an ever increasing variety of methods of attack which can infect randomly or target specific networks or machines in a coordinated attack.
  • Worms
  • Trojan horses and potentially unwanted programs/
  • Spyware/bots
  • Buffer overfl ow exploits
  • Privilege escalation exploits
  • Backdoors
  • Rootkits
  • HTTP exploits