Kaspersky 'I Fear the Net Will Soon Become a War Zone'
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Evgeny Kaspersky is one of Russia's top Internet virus hunters and IT entrepreneurs. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses a raft of recent hacker attacks on multinationals, the "total professionals" behind the Stuxnet virus and his fear of both personal and widespread cyber violence.
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It's already a war zone.....look at all the malware/viruses are out there. Along with a myriad of other nasty things....
But as of yet, it's mostly the unprepared/unprotected/foolish. Now it's become possible to be infected by visiting a legit site if you are not constantly up to date. The prepared have been largely undamaged if they also use common sense. A Guy