88 Percent Of Fortune 500 Infected By Zeus

The RSA Cyber­Crime Intel­li­gence Ser­vice, sug­gests that 441 out of 500 For­tune 500 com­pa­nies has been infected by a virus called Zues Bot­net, which is capa­ble of steal­ing data sub­mit­ted over the Inter­net, cap­tur­ing Win­dows login infor­ma­tion, steal­ing and mim­ic­k­ing e-mail account set­tings, redi­rect­ing vic­tims to ones mali­cious sites, tak­ing snap­shots while you use your com­puter, down­load and exe­cute other mali­cious pro­grams, and delete files that allows Win­dows to func­tion properly.

The sad thing is that the Zeus Tro­jan is detected less than 45 per­cent of the time. Keep in mind that most cor­po­ra­tions use a Syman­tec of McAfee solu­tion, which are two solu­tions I highly rec­om­mend avoiding.

I know they are extremely pop­u­lar, but at the end of the day your com­puter is still vul­ner­a­ble to virus attacks. I rec­om­mend AVG or Kaper­sky. They are indus­try lead­ing anti virus pro­grams, that don’t place a hurt­ing on your pocket either.