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davidh
December 26th, 2007, 10:48 PM
Herd intelligence benefits IT security

Matt Hines Wed Dec 26, 5:47 PM ET

San Francisco - The rise of customized malware is forcing security software vendors to change their tactics quickly and begin using customers' machines as their initial line of threat detection intelligence, according to a new report from Yankee Group.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071226/tc_infoworld/94243

Do you want your anti malware vendor to know all the EXE's and DLL's you are running ?

Maybe if I switch to Linux or FreeBSD I can delay surrendering to the NWO until I'm too feeble to type on a keyboard anymore ?

David H.