Brand new viruses and worms can infect hundreds of thousands of PCs around the world in a matter of hours. And today's viruses and worms are carrying extremely dangerous payloads that can wreak havoc on your computer instantly - if you open the wrong email or attachment.
Today, virus writers are getting very good at tricking users into opening emails that they normally would not read - like the SARS computer virus that supposedly had important information for you to read about the real-life SARS biological virus. If you open these types of emails, you will not get the information you were looking for. Instead, you will have been infected with a variety of hacker tools, including back doors, Trojan horses, password crackers, and RATs (Remote Access Trojans). Some of these newly released viruses and worms can actually send your own personal information from your computer back to the virus writer, and then gives the virus writer complete access to your computer through a back door.
The problem is that it takes time for anti-virus software developers to create an anti-virus signature file that will defend against brand new viruses or worms. In many cases it can take weeks to create a fix and then update your anti-virus program on your PC in order to protect you against these new viruses.
So until your anti-virus software can protect you, how do you know which emails to open or which ones to avoid like the plague? How do you know which attachments are loaded with hacker tools and spyware? It's impossible to know - unless you have the INVISUS™ Security Alerts system on your PC.
For office environments, getting the word around about a dangerous new virus-infected email is almost impossible. First of all, how can you verify that the email in question is a real threat or not? Second, if you know of a specific new virus threat, how can you warn everyone in the organization not to open a specific email?
Not getting proper and timely warnings out to every computer user in an organization literally puts the entire organization at risk. In a matter of minutes after just one person opens an infected email, everyone else on the network can be infected. Computers everywhere may crash, critical data could be lost, confidential information could be breached, and hackers could have been given anytime, anywhere access to the entire operation. The damage from this type of scenario costs businesses in the U.S. alone billions of dollars - every year!
The bottom line is, these problems are easily solved for organizations with the INVISUS® Security Alerts system. No worries. No hassles. Just reliable and timely early warning alerts telling you what to look out for so you don't become a victim to the next virus or worm.
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