Monday, February 2, 2009

Report: Wireless Networks Are Soft Virus Targets

Recent study shows us in the proceeding of national academy of sciences, those people involve in that research warn that viral attack on wireless network can easily spread around tens of thousands routers.

You all would have email that warning you about nasty computer viruses. Even you may have installed antivirus support software on your computer and well, now scientists say that our wireless networks are particularly susceptible to infection, particularly in tightly populated urban areas.

The use of WiFi routers has become all the time more commonplace, as more people get online at small business, at home, at school, at the coffee shop. And these wireless networks are an superb target for nasty types of computer viruses, because they’re always on and keep watching soft target, always connected to the Internet, and don’t have specific software to protect them.

The scientists suggested the infection of real wireless networks in a handful of United State cities, major including San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Boston. The researchers found that virus of just a small number of routers triggered an outbreak, with the virus spreading to tens of thousands of routers in a whole week, even most came in-between of 24 hours. That’s report shown by National academy of sciences.

So if you want to keep your internal network virus-free, at the very least choose a strong password that’s very hard to guess.

But if your systems in network got infected thorough computer virus then you must have spyware removal tool, windows security, and adware spyware and do install antivirus as soon as possible.

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