What Are Blended Threats? How Norton Products Helps To Stay Protected?

The cyber crooks are always looking for opportunities to infect and steal sensitive data. They modify or amend the already available malicious codes or, develop their own malicious programs. As a result this there are thousands of variants of malware, viruses, trojans, spyware, rootkits, exploits etc. The blended threats is one more form of an exploit which is a combination of multiple malware types and usually uses multiple attacking vectors. Since it includes multiple attacking mediums, therefore the speed of contagion and the severity associated with Blended Threats are usually high. Some well known variants of Blended Threats include: Nimda, Bugbear, CodeRed, and Conficker. Although, they may also be tagged as the malware, viruses, or trojans etc., but they are also termed as blended threats because of the following behaviors or features.

   More than one medium of propagation, including email attacks and infecting web servers.

·         Exploiting vulnerabilities in the targeted system that are pre-existing or are caused by other malware

·         Intention of making a real harm, like Denial of Service (DOS) or delivering trojan horse

·         Automatic execution without any user intervention that increases the infection      

Obviously, the blended threats are harmful and, necessary protection measures have to be implemented. Installing comprehensive security solutions like those of Norton, adds a strong layer of security. Plus keeping them updated is also necessary. An updated Norton antivirus solution can detect the attacks including blended threats, using the virus signature database and prevents the attack before it can breach the security.

Norton products are among the best in their respective domain and deliver a powerful protective shield against attacks. Plus, the support for Norton products can be availed at any time by simply dialing Norton antivirus help phone number.

To conclude all, the number and frequency of online and offline attacks are on the rapid rise. It is necessary for users that they should stay updated with attack trends, use and maintain good firewall and good antivirus solutions. Plus staying in contact with good support companies like SupportMart and others, to avail various technical support like PC support, Asus technical support, antivirus support etc., also helps.