Virus writers used to be stereotypical nerds – teenage boys in bedrooms,
avenging what they saw as grievances against the world.
Nowadays, the threat is more sinister. Often viruses are designed to steal
information such as passwords or bank details, or to tie up a company’s computer
system and blackmail them. Many of these new viruses are bankrolled by criminal
gangs.
Fortunately for the rest of us, anti-virus companies are also getting better
at what they do, with plenty of money being invested in new research.
We visited the research labs of two anti-virus companies, F-Secure and
Symantec, to see how money is spent and to ask whether the fight against viruses
is being won or lost.
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