Malware Prevention Quotes

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem and to fight it at each phase of its life cycle.

Android was built to be very, very secure.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

The threat landscape continues to expand, while cyber threats are continually becoming more sophisticated. This has convinced organizations to expand their security policies and deploy more security solutions.

We need to do whatever we can to defend ourselves against hacking.

Although a number of network security programs are already emerging in colleges and universities, security is a field that benefits from hands-on experience in real-world situations.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.