Oliver Friedrichs Quotes (7 Quotes)

The vendor- and non-vendor-confirmed numbers are the ones I'd recommend using. For one thing, it removes the delay that can effect numbers because of long patch times by commercial vendors.

Application vulnerabilities, such as the issue in Windows Media Player, are a growing cause of concern.

It really generates a lot of network traffic. It's really just going to slow down Internet performance.

So the exposure time is much less.

How we did it before wasn't a fair comparison. It wasn't an apples to apples comparison.

Symantec recommends that users apply the updates as quickly as possible and refrain from opening unknown attachments or clicking on suspicious links that arrive via e-mail or instant messages,

These vulnerabilities are increasingly being used to facilitate online fraud through the installation of malicious software on vulnerable computers. Symantec has already seen exploits for some of these vulnerabilities in the wild and recommends that users apply the updates as quickly as possible.