Hello Experts,
This is my first question to the community. Hopefully I can grade your comments/answers as objective as possible.
To recap a bit, I've been playing with viruses since my Junior High. Back to that day, viruses tend to be as smallest as bitly possible. The smallest I could recall (collected) is 57 bytes (forgotten the names). I also recall a bootsector/MBR virus which can be easily killed by FDISK/MBR :) I also recalled the infamous message "Your PC is now stoned!". Several top viruses crosses my mind as of I'm typing now is DAV,Liberty,DieHard....
Then my Senior High, Not much of the ancient virus exist since the launch of Win9x (PE). But macro viruses are almost perfect threat to all computer users. The rise of Macro/VBA viruses are wildfire.. along with the remote administrator/trojan program like Netbus/BO/Subseven.
Then my college time, it seems to me adware/spyware/trojan etc are the internet parasites primadona. The trend shift to self propagating and targetted mail client, infect the PC, sends back lots of message with the virus/worm attached. Today, viruses dont have to be kept on "a diet" as "old-school" viruses were. We dont pay too much attention of 50KB in emails/files or unusual ~100KB files in our GIGAbytes harddrive.
Havent heard bout DDOS zombies infection nowadays. Is this going to survive in the future?
Now experts, please share your view:
1. what's your view on future attack to PC? What is it like?
2. If today's viruses/worm/trojans will survive in the future. What makes it? Why?
3. Is nuking/DDOSing or <whatever-the-name-is> today is still a future most computer security threat? Why?
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