Definitely this headline is disconcerting because of the recent news item that pegs the rise in zombie computers to be about 50% above the level in 2008. What lends credibility to the statistic is that it is attributed to be a very recent statement before the media made by a very senior officer of McAfee Corporation.
Now McAfee is into the business of antivirus software and makes very effective antivirus programs. Therefore, the issue of zombie computers is definitely very serious when McAfee voices concern over the issue.
Apparently the first thing that strikes your mind is that most people (mainly home users as well as some of the corporate ones) do not seem to be taking the subject of computer security very seriously or that they are quite ignorant on this score. To show that the matter is dead serious, even for the NSA (National Security Agency) in the US enough is enough. It is ready to recruit the best among the so called elite hackers in an initiative to stymie the evil designs of rogue but brilliant hackers and virus and Trojan horse creators.
Coming back to the core of the issue, it appears that simply the task of buying good computer hardware with a good operating system (OS) and some application software takes the wind (monetarily as well as mind wise) out of the sails of most people. Either that or that people are most casual when it comes to shelling out cash to buy a good Internet Security Suite (software).
Also it may be that until actual experience pulls them down, people do not want to purchase good computer security software. This one reason could result in the proliferation of zombie computers nowadays. Another statistic that just well can come up is the fact that for every single user who is savvy about computer security and makes his best efforts to stay updated on the latest techniques in the field there are ten users who are not even aware of the many dangers that lurk on the Internet.
One solution that can beat the hackers at their own game moots a tie-up between some of the better computer security software manufacturers such as Symantec, Quick Heal, and McAfee on the one hand and computer sellers on the other. The solution to this problem can only b achieved if no computer manufacturer sells a computer system without a good Internet Security Suite pre-installed. Such an arrangement would be similar to what Microsoft has with most computer sellers with regard to the Windows operating system.
Considering that most new computer purchasers will connect to the Internet before long, such a solution can minimize the dangers that befall naïve users of computers when they connect to the Internet. The advantage to computer sellers would be the bundling of the price of the Internet Security Suite and cost them as well as computer buyers much less than the market price of the software.
The advantage to the computer security software developers would be assured and huge increases in sales of their products. To naïve computer users of course, such an arrangement would be a god sent, because they would not need to undertake the hassle of buying the computer security software separately.
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