Re: Malware Triangle

From: kurt wismer (kurtw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:58:14 -0500

Richard S. Westmoreland wrote:
> "kurt wismer" <kurtw@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:5AAnd.36628$rc.2203264@news20.bellglobal.com...
>
>>for example, spam doesn't belong anywhere near a malware diagram... it
>>is not a threat to anything other than your time and/or your pocketbook
>>(if you happen to get suckered into buying something)... in the grander
>>sense i suppose it's also a threat to the usefulness of email in
>>general, but it's no more a threat than being exposed to advertising on
>>tv or in a magazine or on the side of the highway...
>
>
> A threat to your time/pocketbook; your bandwidth, your storage space,
> difficultuly of regulation compliance - all a disruption to Availability.
> If you work in a corporate environment that has to deal with this, it is a
> costly annoyance.

that makes it a business threat... not a computer security threat...

> Spam is malicious, and electronic, so I very well can
> classify it as malware.

if it's not software (and it's not) then it's not malware...

> The definition of malware is still a relatively new term in our language, I
> don't have a problem with extending it's definition to meet the needs of
> now.

well it's a good thing it's not up to you to decide if/when/how to
extend the meaning of technical jargon...

> Malware is a compound of Malicious Software, and the definition of
> Software is:
>
> Computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is
> software.
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/software.html

that is an absurd definition... remind me (as a software developer and
computer scientist) never to use webopedia, ever... 

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