78 Chapter 2 · Stalkers on Your Desktop Summary This has been a fairly superficial tour around the malware scene, compared to the detail we've expended on some of the other chapters. However, I'd like to think that some readers will get more usable and accurate information here than they will from certain consumer- level books. Unfortunately, experience suggests that many administrators and managers with excellent technical knowledge in mainstream security (network security, firewall and IPS management, encryption, and so on) are less familiar with the areas we've addressed here, and have been subjected to the popular misconceptions generated by the media and those same consumer-level sources. Unfortunately, I've learned from bitter experience that issues that seem to have comparatively little relevance to security in the market place have a habit of sneaking in through unexpected crannies. When they do so, they can have serious knock-on effects on the enterprise's business processes. While we've barely scratched the surface of the range of solutions that exists for addressing some of these problems--alas, we have yet to find a means of dealing with chain letters more effective than euthanasia--we have included some links in the resources section at the end of the book that will give you a starting point, if you need it. We'd also urge you to look at the extensive Syngress security catalog, which includes a wide range of books that address some of these topics in more detail: off the top of my head, "Phishing Exposed." The issues discussed here are actually common topics for discussion in AVIEN and AVIEWS, so there's another incentive to join us. However, the fact that these organizations