New Social Virus Revealed
Friday, May 8th, 2009Dan:
Eugene, welcome to the program. Nice to see you here, especially knowing that you don’t give interviews too often.
Kaspersky:
Good morning. Yes, I don’t like to give interviews, partially because my English is not very good, but today I have a reason and responsibility to go public. We just published the latest list of social viruses and one of them really dangerous. It is spreading very fast.
Dan:
Social virus? What is it?
Kaspersky:
You know what a computer virus is. It is a piece of code which can get into your computer system and live there for some time. Mostly, what it does is copy itself to other systems, infecting as many computers as it can. When it has populated many computers it can start utilizing them for someone’s benefit. It can help break security systems, or simply send thousands meaningless messages to a target server causing a so called DoS attack.
