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"All people
dream: but not equally.Those who dream by night in
the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to
find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous people,for they may act their dreams with open
eye, to make it possible."
T.E. Lawrence
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Team
This Website is designed together by the Malmon team consisting Ahmad Mohamad, Saiful Islam and Jaafar Najmuddin.
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BACKGROUND
The
Website is a project requirement in the GB 3020 curriculum,
Fundamentals Of IT. The topic that was chosen for our group is
Home PC Security.
Overview
The current situation shows many home PCs have become
victims of virus and worm infections, DDOS agents and many others as discussed
in this project. Based on our observation, the increasing number of worms
transmitted via emails affecting home users are as a result of unawareness of
the threat and improper countermeasures such as safe handling of email
attachments and not keeping an updated anti-virus in their PCs. In July 2001
it has been reported of a new worm targeting home users running on Windows
operating system, W32/Leaves worm, and over 23 000 machines had been infected with this
worm.
The above incident reveals there still lies a gap, between the ultimate
defense needed for security and the existing defense in practice among home
users. This gap needs to be rectified with proper countermeasures and defense
mechanisms. Lemos Robert in his article in ZDNet News (February 16, 2000) at http://www.zdnet.com
has quoted Eugene Spafford, a computer science
professor and security expert from Purdue University that home users don't have
the right security tools and understanding about why they need them and they are
much more likely to be prone to attack or their machines used in DDOS,
coordinated attacks.
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Thanks For Visiting Our Site
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This is the beginning of a New Day.
I have this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or grow in its light and be of service to others.
But what I do
with this day is important because I have exchange a day
of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, today will be
gone forever. I hope I will not regret the price I paid
for it."
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