Time after time you would have read in various PC, IT as well as notebook review magazines the importance as well as effectiveness of anti-virus programmes for your desktops and laptops. But despite this constant "reminder", the IT world still continues to be besieged by hackers as well as numerous online threats.
What online threats are we talking about?
As far as I'm concerned, they basically fall into teo broad categories: those that are created by commercial hackers for the purpose of unauthorised data mining, and those that are used by cyber terrorists for the purpose of essential data retrieval in their ultimate goal to destabalise a targetted country or business or government entity.
Now if we were to focus only on the first category, then the worst scenario that may possibly occur to your system would be a system crash, with the potential of stoeln critical passwords. This situation causes a greater distress especially if it's linked to your online banking acccount.
But if it's about cyber terrorism, then it's a whole different ball game. The damage will involve not only stolen critical data, but will result in a "morphing" of the intended data for the purpose of prolonged cyber attacks against the targetted entity. And it is because of reasons like these, that government organisations all across the globe engage and maintain an internal team of disaster recovery experts, partnered with counter-hackers. Along with this team, a near "bullet-proof" business continuity plan needs to be developed as well.
But what about organisations or individuals that do not have the budget to develope nor hire such plans and expertise? The answer would be to resort to low cost but highly effective anti-virus solutions to combat such potential online threats.
Believe me: anyone who has been hit by such online threats will realise the genuine importance of such anti-virus solutions. It's not worth taking the chance. Especially if you're a mobile user.
What online threats are we talking about?
As far as I'm concerned, they basically fall into teo broad categories: those that are created by commercial hackers for the purpose of unauthorised data mining, and those that are used by cyber terrorists for the purpose of essential data retrieval in their ultimate goal to destabalise a targetted country or business or government entity.
Now if we were to focus only on the first category, then the worst scenario that may possibly occur to your system would be a system crash, with the potential of stoeln critical passwords. This situation causes a greater distress especially if it's linked to your online banking acccount.
But if it's about cyber terrorism, then it's a whole different ball game. The damage will involve not only stolen critical data, but will result in a "morphing" of the intended data for the purpose of prolonged cyber attacks against the targetted entity. And it is because of reasons like these, that government organisations all across the globe engage and maintain an internal team of disaster recovery experts, partnered with counter-hackers. Along with this team, a near "bullet-proof" business continuity plan needs to be developed as well.
But what about organisations or individuals that do not have the budget to develope nor hire such plans and expertise? The answer would be to resort to low cost but highly effective anti-virus solutions to combat such potential online threats.
Believe me: anyone who has been hit by such online threats will realise the genuine importance of such anti-virus solutions. It's not worth taking the chance. Especially if you're a mobile user.
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