Should only the paranoid get E-mail protection?

✍ Scribed by Ben McClure

• Book ID: 104298185
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4048
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4048(97)87590-6

✦ Synopsis

tion strongly influence biological epidemics, changes in the computing environment are seen to be responsible for the characteristics of several distinct viral epochs. The rise of boot-sector infectors after 1992 is associated with the acceptance at the same time of the Windows 3.1 operating system; a number of new viruses, including the especially dangerous Macroviruses have accompanied the widespread uptake of Windows 95. At IBM, such thinking is regarded as the foundation for an immune system in cyberspace.