Evaluating the Virus Threat: Is It Safe to Turn on Your PC?

摘要

It would be difficult to find a veteran end user who is unwilling to share at least one "war story" concerning a computer virus. Viruses are, and undoubtedly will continue to be, a fact of life in the end user computing community. Many tales of bouts with computer viruses contain a good measure of embellishment, and many computer mishaps attributed to viruses are truly due to "pilot error". Regardless of these facts, computer viruses are a problem worth addressing. This paper considers the degree to which the situation is clouded by hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. My three-word summary is: quite a bit!