Can Users Avoid Being Infected by the Next Love Bug? Aberdeen Group Provides Free Analysis of the Impact of Script Vermin.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 In an Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. Impact, posted today on its Web site, Aberdeen Group provides analysis for Information Systems (IS) buyers who are worried about how to avoid the next "Love Bug A famous virus that arrived as an e-mail attachment using the "double extension trick." The file name was "I LOVE YOU.TXT.vbs." The .vbs extension slipped by users who thought it was a safe text (.TXT) file. " infestation infestation /in·fes·ta·tion/ (-fes-ta´shun) parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks; sometimes used to denote parasitic invasion of the organs and tissues, as by helminths. . This Impact provides IS decision-makers with insight into:
- Why anti-virus (AV) solutions relying on traditional pattern
matching will not prevent additional damage from the new
generation of script-based viruses;
- A known technology approach that will prevent the new germs from
disrupting and destroying the business of the enterprise; and
- Suppliers that are currently shipping the technology in their
solutions.
To read Aberdeen's Impact, "Avoiding the Children of the `the Love Bug' Requires Event Triggers, Not Just Pattern Matching 1. pattern matching - A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. " visit Aberdeen's Web site at www.aberdeen.com. About Aberdeen Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group provides IT consulting and market strategy advice to the IT supplier community. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen focuses on answering clients critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aberdeen Group has offices in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com. |
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