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economist sunsuntribune bus iness saturday feb 26 2005 23 business must auard aaainst viruses executive computer hackers set record last year by patrick mangion staff writer on the surface their names sound as innocuous as the operating systems they infiltrate but over the past few years slammer gomer lovsan nimda and countless other computer viruses have exacted a heavy toll on the computing world what began as a relative annoyance has evolved to where international air travel has been crippled and global automakers stymied by hackers or malicious code writers as they are now called and the bad news is despite wellmean ing legislative efforts by governments and millions if not billions inresearch and devel opment from the software industry the chances you will be technologically violated continues to rise a york region technology conference heard last week addressing members of the york technol ogy association inthornhill mcafee canada vicepresident jack sebbag said the more than 112000 known computer worms have taken the problem from the back room to the boardrooms of corporate canada the californiabased antivims software maker with its canadian headquarters in markham said 2004 was a record year for viruses the number of bugs deemed medium to high risk grew steadily from three years ago mr sebbag said the 15yearold doing this who couldnt illllib ifil l staff phototim barnett jack sebag vicepresident of mcafee canada addresses the york technology association get a date is now 20 and still cant get a date but theyre getting really good at this he told the crowd mcafee now has an antivirus response team of 120 engineers to deal with the prob lem with the internet viruses go global in hours now aside from the creators of viruses spy- ware phishing and spam the makers of pop ular but often vulnerable operating systems microsoft macintosh and linux are also to blame mr sebbag said with 25000 to 25 million an hour lost due to a network failure caused by an external virus business needs to take a more proactive spam overruns email 60 per cent of all incoming email is spam for 140 us anyone can purchase the email addresses of 25 million computer users worldwide less than 025 per cent will ever actually purchase a product through spam as much as 70 per cent of wireless technology has no security and approximately 40 per cent of wireless purchasers buy with the intent of piggybacking on someone elses internet connection approach mr sebbag said that includes a changing mindset which equates computer violators to trespassing at a bricks and mortar building education is the key to understanding whats out there and how to protect ourselves better he added mr sebbags comments followed an announcement earlier this month of 12 new vulnerabilities and news the worlds first cell phone virus appeared in the united states the biggest impact of the virus dubbed cabir is a rapid draining of mobile phone batteries but as more people continue to use cell phones and 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