Telecentres and the "Opposing ICT Forces"
In the early years of ICT, the world was initially confronted with the problem of computer viruses. This was followed by the alternate springing of virus and anti-virus programs along with spyware, malware, etc. and their corresponding antidotes. Now, we are witnessing the consequent deployment of security software in response to broader applications used by people and institutions to invade privacy, steal or encroach upon intellectual property, and even limit the freedom of expression.
a. How serious, if at all, are the effects of the “offense forces” of ICT (i.e., viruses, spyware, malware, etc.) to your telecentre?
b. How effective are the “defense forces” of ICT (i.e., anti-viruses, anti-spyware, anti-malware, etc.) in confronting the "offense forces"?
c. Which is safer or more secure to use by our telecentres, proprietary software or FOSS?
d. What can our network and telecentres possibly do, if any, vis-à-vis this issue?
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on -
Computer viruses, spyware, malware, and etc. affect the operations of our CeCs in terms of downtimes, lost files, wasted time and efforts in recovering files, cleaning files and folders, or totally reformatting hard disks and re-installing OS and other software, not to mention the cost of proprietary Anti-viruses, Anti-spyware, Anti-malware, etc. that take much of the budgets of our CeCs.
Can we list here some of the effective FOSS that can be used by our CeCs for such viruses, spyware, malware, and etc?
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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One of the services of our telecentre is hardware/software maintenance/troubleshooting. Based on our experience, about 8 out of 10 job orders that we receive involve computer viruses and other malware. The computer units that are being used by our clients at our telecentre bog down most frequently due to the same problem.
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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This could mean that the anti-virus software that we purchase are not so effective at all. How do you rate the anti-virus software with the following brands: McAfee, Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, Avast?
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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This seems to be an interesting article that has a link to a "source" website. Unfortunately, the linked website is in Russian language, which most of us can't read.
Russian “spam tycoon” Petr Ivanenko said [RUS] in an interview that his main targets were the U.S., Great Britain, Australia, Spain and Italy. He explained his new spam methods and talked about collaboration with credit cards online thieves. http://slon.ru/articles/248620/
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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My apologies to the programmers/developers of computer viruses, spyware and other forms of malware. Relative to this, I have changed the offensive words that I used in referring to the "opposing ICT forces" in this forum as follows:
"Defense forces" instead of "Good Forces"
"Offense forces" instead of "Bad Forces"
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Permalink Reply by angela maria gonima lopez on -
En realidad no sabria ninguna de estas respuestas pero si me interesa esta discucion
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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No hay problema mi amiga, sólo amablemente dar su opinión acerca virus de computer/computador.
(No problem my friend, just kindly give your thoughts about computer viruses.)
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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¿Cuán grave, si en todo, son los efectos de las "fuerzas de ofensa" de ICT (es decir, los virus, spyware, malware, etc.) a su telecentre?
(How serious, if at all, are the effects of the “offense forces” of ICT (i.e., viruses, spyware, malware, etc.) to your telecentre?)
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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on -
Telecenters sometimes have living opposing forces (People) - beaurocracy etc
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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I totally agree with you my friend Niranjan. It's good to see you back.
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy L. Calata on
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I appreciate very much your creative thinking my friend. I think a discussion along your idea would be enriching to the telecentre movement. The theme could be:
Managing (or living with) opposing forces (people and institutions) in the telecentre ecosystem
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Permalink Reply by angela maria gonima lopez on
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Sin duda Nirajan la tecnologia a pesar de que avanza muy rapidamente, tambien se combierte en amenaza para los telecentros ya que combatir los nuevos virus implica recurrir a nuevas tecnologias a mas gastos en equipos y claro detras de esto estan los intereses de los que venden, y hay tambien aquellos que solo tienen intereses personales que obviamente tambien perjudican a los telecentros y se comvierten en fuerzas oscuras
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