CES - DAY 2 - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 6

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David Lawrence: We had Eric Zorn from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He put an unprotected PC on the net to conduct some anti-Spyware tests using software like Adware and Spybot Search & Destroy and GIANT, which was just purchased by Microsoft. And he says of the three devices, the slowest with all the scripts that are running out there looking for open ports, the slowest before it was compromised was 3.3 minutes.

Patrick Hinojosa: Wow.

David Lawrence: Yeah, 3 minutes and 18 seconds.

Patrick Hinojosa: Oh, there you go, I mean--

David Lawrence: And that*s because people are running automated programs that look for machines that can be compromised.

Patrick Hinojosa: Yes, and then when they find the machine that one, a lot of times will get infected, it will look for other machines if it*s expediential.

David Lawrence: So the scripts themselves have a viral component to them.

Patrick Hinojosa: That*s right.

David Lawrence: Alright, so once a machine has been compromised and for people that just got machines over the holidays, I know that the hackers were just salivating over that, because they buy the machine, maybe they save some money, maybe they didn*t buy the firewalls, the router, and whatnot. And boom, they plug it into their new broadband connection and they don*t even realize what's going on with their machine.

Patrick Hinojosa: Oh yeah, brand new, high end zombie machine.

David Lawrence: Yeah. So what did they do about that with the Panda stuff?

Patrick Hinojosa: Well, there are two components. We have our regular you know antivirus and firewalls that will give your updates and you are protected from stuff that everybody knows about that the antivirus companies, know about the brand. Many of have the other component, which is TruPrevent, which protects the computer against anything new, that is not known about yet. Because your antivirus software only protects you against known, known felons in the database.

David Lawrence: You have to go and get a signature file which includes all of the things that, that virus protection software will search for.

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