Security Strategies in Windows Platforms and Applications, 3rd Edition

Importance of Updating Your Software

Attackers introduce new malware on a daily basis. Eugene Kapersky, of Kapersky Lab, reports that there are currently around 360,000 new virus, Trojan, and other malicious files processed by Kapersky’s detection technologies every day. That represents a dramatic increase from just a few years ago. Today’s malware creators commonly use automated tools to craft new malware threats by automatically making small changes to existing malware. Essentially, the signature database downloaded last week can’t protect you from new threats that have emerged this week. If you update your antivirus or anti-spyware software only once a week, you could potentially be vulnerable to many new threats that attackers launched ...