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title: "Eddy Willems, security expert: The main way to avoid malware is to educate the user  - Ventas de Seguridad"
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date: "2026-07-23T16:09:22+00:00"
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#  [ Eddy Willems, security expert: The main way to avoid malware is to educate the user ](https://www.ventasdeseguridad.com/en/news/latest-news/434-computer-security/14992-eddy-willems-security-expert-the-main-way-to-avoid-malware-is-to-educate-the-user.html "Eddy Willems, security expert: The main way to avoid malware is to educate the user ")

      Details     18 October 2011           Last week, Eddy Willems was in Spain for the VirusBulletin conferences in Barcelona. Eddy Willems is an expert in the field of computer security: active in this world since 1989, he was co-founder of EICAR and has worked with security forces and security companies such as Kaspersky. He is now a member of EICAR and a security evangelist at G Data. We had the opportunity to interview him for a few minutes in Madrid about his vision of security in...Cont... Last week, Eddy Willems was in Spain for the VirusBulletin conferences in Barcelona. Eddy Willems is an expert in the field of computer security: active in this world since 1989, he was co-founder of EICAR and has worked with security forces and security companies such as Kaspersky. He is now a member of EICAR and a security evangelist at G Data.

We had the opportunity to interview him for a few minutes in Madrid about his vision of security on the Internet and on new devices, such as smartphones. Before starting with the interview, I would like to thank Eddy Willems for making a space in his agenda to assist us, and Nacho Heras, from G Data, for facilitating the interview and the place. And now yes, let's go with the interview after the jump.

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