Another kind of fireworks display may take place on the Internet this weekend. There is a large malware campaign targeted for this 4th of July weekend, 2009. CNET reports that computers infected by the Waledac worm are a part of a botnet that will begin distributing spam this weekend intending to get users to click on videos that will infect the PC with the malware and add it to the botnet.
The prevalence of this type of problem is more indicative than ever that blacklisting antivirus simply isn’t up to the task of preventing infection of PCs.
In the past couple of months, whitelisting has been in the news through multiple different avenues. We at CoreTrace feel that the raising awareness that blacklist-based antivirus simply can no longer protect PCs is passing a critical point—a point that is going to lead businesses and eventually consumers to a whitelisting model that can prevent infection, not just detect and clean up the infection after the fact. Here is a look at some key news around this area: 
This week, CoreTrace announced the latest version of our award-winning application whitelisting product,