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As much as cloud computing is powerful and potentially useful, cloud virus is not anything less. As long as virus can get empowered by cloud computing the potential of it powerful mass destruction is assured.
As much as antivirus can use cloud computing, virus attacks and infection can also do the same, just one or few infected nodes can spread into all the nodes and then go beyond the cloud, when virus / spyware / worm get to control the cloud it will unleash the power of cloud computing to attack beyond it's own boundary.
For experienced users, it is very common to find that anti-virus system itself is the 1st to be knocked out by the virus, (bandits took out the police 1st) this is not the worst. The virus can pretend to be anti-virus program, that is even better! Thieves pretending to be Matas!
It is very very common these days that spyware & trojans block the users from accessing any websites belonging to security software firms e.g. mcafee + symentec + trendmicro etc. This means all roads leading to police-stations are blocked by bandits!
That's why when trendmicro etc can use cloud computing to tackle virus, virus can also use cloud computing to tackle these security software. It will be a serious joke when users got tricked to go to these websites of security software firms to download virus into their own computers. This when you go to Mata-chu to get robbed inside there!
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/t-business/2010/02/05/243771/Trend-Micro.htm
Trend Micro eyes big pie of cloud computing
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Trend Micro Inc., a global leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, announced yesterday that it has established an affiliated firm to put itself “in the clouds,” as 2010 is forecast to be “the Year of Cloud Computing.
Trend Micro founder and chairman Steve Chang said at a news conference that the affiliated firm, PCloud Computing, is aiming at putting forth its self-developed cloud computing operating system software in the second quarter of this year.
“Compared to Microsoft, Amazon or Google, Taiwan has started relatively late in terms of cloud computing,” said Chang.
Noting that Trend Micro has been developing cloud computing technology and relevant knowledge for the last four years, Chang said the purpose of PCloud Computing's founding is to create an open platform for cloud computing and consolidate the power of the global open-source communities to offer users more choice.
Describing PCloud Computing as a driving force behind the development of cloud computing technology, Chang said the new company will offer technical assistance, training courses and consultation services to potential users.
Meanwhile, Jenny Chen, executive cultural officer of Trend Micro, announced that her company will collaborate with National Taiwan University (NTU) to offer a cloud computing curriculum to NTU students.
Trend Micro will initially invest NT$50 million for the cloud computing talent-nurturing project, which will also include a Trend cloud computing lab to be manned by 10 lecturers from Trend Micro and 52 from NTU, according to Chen.
Chen quoted International Data Corporation (IDC), a Massachusetts-based market research and analysis firm specializing in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology, as predicting that global investment in cloud computing and relevant technology will top US$42 billion by 2012, up from US$16 billion in 2008.
As much as antivirus can use cloud computing, virus attacks and infection can also do the same, just one or few infected nodes can spread into all the nodes and then go beyond the cloud, when virus / spyware / worm get to control the cloud it will unleash the power of cloud computing to attack beyond it's own boundary.
For experienced users, it is very common to find that anti-virus system itself is the 1st to be knocked out by the virus, (bandits took out the police 1st) this is not the worst. The virus can pretend to be anti-virus program, that is even better! Thieves pretending to be Matas!
It is very very common these days that spyware & trojans block the users from accessing any websites belonging to security software firms e.g. mcafee + symentec + trendmicro etc. This means all roads leading to police-stations are blocked by bandits!
That's why when trendmicro etc can use cloud computing to tackle virus, virus can also use cloud computing to tackle these security software. It will be a serious joke when users got tricked to go to these websites of security software firms to download virus into their own computers. This when you go to Mata-chu to get robbed inside there!
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/t-business/2010/02/05/243771/Trend-Micro.htm
Trend Micro eyes big pie of cloud computing
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Trend Micro Inc., a global leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, announced yesterday that it has established an affiliated firm to put itself “in the clouds,” as 2010 is forecast to be “the Year of Cloud Computing.
Trend Micro founder and chairman Steve Chang said at a news conference that the affiliated firm, PCloud Computing, is aiming at putting forth its self-developed cloud computing operating system software in the second quarter of this year.
“Compared to Microsoft, Amazon or Google, Taiwan has started relatively late in terms of cloud computing,” said Chang.
Noting that Trend Micro has been developing cloud computing technology and relevant knowledge for the last four years, Chang said the purpose of PCloud Computing's founding is to create an open platform for cloud computing and consolidate the power of the global open-source communities to offer users more choice.
Describing PCloud Computing as a driving force behind the development of cloud computing technology, Chang said the new company will offer technical assistance, training courses and consultation services to potential users.
Meanwhile, Jenny Chen, executive cultural officer of Trend Micro, announced that her company will collaborate with National Taiwan University (NTU) to offer a cloud computing curriculum to NTU students.
Trend Micro will initially invest NT$50 million for the cloud computing talent-nurturing project, which will also include a Trend cloud computing lab to be manned by 10 lecturers from Trend Micro and 52 from NTU, according to Chen.
Chen quoted International Data Corporation (IDC), a Massachusetts-based market research and analysis firm specializing in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology, as predicting that global investment in cloud computing and relevant technology will top US$42 billion by 2012, up from US$16 billion in 2008.
