Spyware and Virus Information

Do you know that there are sites out there selling (and giving away) Virus Construction Kits? Indeed there are. And, they're not hard to find. If you have some computer skills but not enough to build a virus/worm from the "ground up", a Virus Instruction Kit can help you build a virus or worm. After you've built your brand new virus or worm, and added your own personal "touches", they will even tell you how to disseminate it, so you can infect the largest number of computers in the least amount of time.

Here's a good explanation of Virus Construction Kits from Addison-Wesley:

Virus construction kits evolved over the years as viruses targeted new platforms. Construction kits and virus mutators were built to generate a wide variety of malicious code, including DOS COM and EXE viruses; 16-bit Windows executable viruses; BATCH and Visual Basic Script viruses; Word, PowerPoint, and Excel viruses; mIRC worms; and so on. Recently, even PE virus code can be generated by such kits....." (Read more here.)

Knowledge Is Always Your Best First Line of Defense

This article was written, not to scare you, but to inform you.

Knowledge is a great thing. The more you know the safer you are. Still you need to keep a good anti-virus program installed and updated. You should make sure your anti-virus program is updated at least once a week. You should install at least one good anti-spyware programs.

we recommend Spybot Search & Destroy which is free.