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Re: No AV? Shock, horror!
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:55:34 +0200
Non-rhetorical question: Is there a source of data showing 10,000 machines with AV are less likely to be infected than 10,000 machines without? On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:38 PM, <Blanchard_Michael () emc com> wrote:
There are plenty of AV products for *nix platforms. It's not that there is a *huge* amount of viruses for those platforms, it's that those platforms are often accessed by Windows platforms and the merchant should want to provide a clean file to a customer... Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:13 PM To: Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Cc: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] No AV? Shock, horror! Maybe some merchants don't use Windows? On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:PCI survey finds some merchants don't use antivirus software http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092309-pci-survey-finds-some- merchants.html?hpg1=bn (But absolutely no surprise whatsoever ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert, 16th century English clergyman http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list._______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- No AV? Shock, horror! Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 25)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 25)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Drsolly (Sep 25)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Nick FitzGerald (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Michael Collins (Sep 29)
- McAfee really DOES write new Malware! Wholey Moley! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 29)
- Re: McAfee really DOES write new Malware! Wholey Moley! Rich Kulawiec (Sep 29)
- Re: McAfee really DOES write new Malware! Wholey Moley! chris (Sep 29)
- Re: McAfee really DOES write new Malware! Wholey Moley! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 30)
- Re: McAfee really DOES write new Malware! Wholey Moley! Rich Kulawiec (Sep 30)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Blanchard_Michael (Sep 29)