PC security is never 100 percent effective (Dugdale 292). As the Internet gets faster and faster, network administrators want their networks to be as fast as possible so access to them is not sluggish. Actually, some security software can slow down a network as much as 20 percent (Koerner 20 Web's bad week). Administrators want the network or Internet site up as soon as possible. Koerner states that most of the time security is in the back of the administrator's mind (20).

"You can't just buy a product and think you are magically secure," stated Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security (Koerner 20 Web's bad week). Author of Mastering Network Security, Chris Benton, says, "It's easier for an ad

ministrator to throw software at the problem rather than take time to come up to speed (Koerner 54 cybervandals)." It seems like most security administrators are unable to solve problems themselves. They resort to the software that others program to keep their systems up to date. In reality, it may be counter effective since administrators do not exactly know what holes that the software may have in them.

A common type of software that protects networks from any unusual activity of anything behind a network is known as a "firewall" (Wilson A19). A firewall cannot stop attacks such as Denial of Service (Koerner 19 Web's bad week). Firewalls see these attacks as normal net traffic. They are oblivious to the amount of data being sent. Besides, spending $20,000 for a firewall is a waste of money if it is helpless against such attacks (Wilson A19).

It all comes back to the low security of the "zombie" machines. Many of them were probably machines at college universities such as the one at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Systems programmer at Clemson University is quoted as saying, "Security is the number one problem I worry about (Wilson A19)." If it had not been for unskilled security administrators, hackers would not have been able to gain remote access to these machines and plant files on them.

What can be done to prevent online networks from being hacked? Hiring more qualified security technicians would be a fine start. Security personnel make up only one percent of the business workforce (Koerner 55 cybervandals). Even the head o

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