hackfix-virusnews: Virus busters (interesting article)
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:47:16 -0500
Virus busters
By Xavier La Canna
October 28, 2003
The first clue to the role of the building I was
standing in is a notice written in large letters on
one of the office doors: "DANGER - Live viruses" it
warned, and in smaller writing "authorised personnel
only". Without the warning, the inside of the
four-storey building just off Church Street, in
Richmond, Melbourne, would have been like any of the
other business places in Melbourne's inner-east.
A group of apparently hard-working staff sat behind
computers in the open-plan office, tapping away at
their keyboards.
Set behind a well-manicured lawn above a small cafe,
the building didn't give any indication it could be
at the front line of a global war. But it is.
Dr Eugene Dozortsev greeted me at the door. A short,
well-dressed man with a thick Russian accent, the
former rocket scientist looks unlikely to be a person
who routinely helps save thousands from anonymous
attacks.
The place I was in did not house a biotech facility,
with white-coated scientists carrying test-tubes. It
was the Computer Associates laboratory. Every day up
to 45 people in the building search for new computer
viruses.
I was interested in how new computer viruses are
found, who gets to name them and what steps are taken
to protect users from a new threat.
Read more here:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/27/106721319
6462.html
Copyright =A9 2003. The Age Company Ltd
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