Tag: virus infections

This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 2002, when virus hoaxes were wreaking havoc in homes and organizations worldwide. Virus hoaxes — false reports or warnings about non-existent viruses whose traditional payload was time wasting and increasing user anxiety about the virus threat, but which could also extend to getting the user…

This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to February 2004 when, in order to get a gauge of the “real” virus problem, Jim Bates presented the findings of a survey of UK computer programmers. “A ragbag of pseudo-scientific projections, surveys, reports, forecasts and speculations” — the true extent of the malware problem has always…