Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

You're showing your age. ;-)  Word macro viruses haven't been much of a
problem for 6 or 7 years ever since Microsoft went to signed VBA code in
Office.

However similar problems do existing with scripting code run by the Windows
Scripting Host.  Perhaps WSH doesn't get whitelisted?

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:19 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Subject: Re: [funsec] Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

Another one who hasn't heard of Word acro viruses and similar.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=158750&WT.svl=news1_4
>
> Brent Rickels, senior vice president at First National Bank of Bosque
> County, had grown tired of dealing with antivirus software. He was tired
of
> regularly updating virus signatures, tired of hackers constantly tweaking
> malware, and tired of worrying about what users had downloaded onto their
> PCs. So Rickels dumped the bank's AV software for a whitelisting product
and
> in the process, become one of its first commercial customers. 

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