Monday, October 20, 2008

Symantec Internet Security

Though this video that Symantec may be fun to watch with its creative imagery to demonstrate Internet Security and its techno music playing in the background, it truly is a very informative video. They way they set it up also helps the audience see how severe computer attacks are because they have the video set up to automatically pause every time a new bit of information is presented, so the user must either read or ignore the information completely then press play again. Hopefully most viewers actually read the information cause they might actually learn something they haven't already known. Such as here in America we account for 31% of malicious activity. When I read this it make me feel that I should make my computer even more secure from harmful attacks. Within this malicious activity that America accounts for 31% are the 11,254 vulnerabilities that Symantec has identified, and the 499,811 malicious code threats from web pages, or the 1,134 malicious emails sent everyday, this makes up 71% of all email that is spam and phishing emails. These numbers are staggering, sadly though, many people will watch this video and still go on with their computers unprotected until they are attacked by a virus, worm, etc; and then they will regret not listening to what they were told about protecting their computers.

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