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Re: Dumb users spread viruses
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:16:52 -0600
On 2/8/2004 4:46 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
In this past year's tour of my friends and family, I've taken to removing their antivirus software at the same time I remove their spyware, and I've taken to installing Mozilla (with its IMAP client) as a way to keep the machine from having any dependency on anti-virus software.
I switched to Communicator (and then Mozilla) a long time ago, and I also use older versions of Word or alternative products that are less prone to worms/viruses. I also run anti-virus scans on my mail server. But I still use virus checkers locally and I don't think it's a good idea for folks to be discounting their usefulness. There are too many other paths for infection -- web downloads, infected CD-ROMs (yes this still happens), and so forth. If performance is a problem then scan writes only, instead of writes+reads (you won't get infected if you scan every write to disk, while scanning reads is only going to produce a hit if you are already infected). -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
Current thread:
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses, (continued)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Todd Vierling (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Paul Vixie (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Niels Bakker (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Roland Perry (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Todd Vierling (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Todd Vierling (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses John Payne (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses JC Dill (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Mike Jezierski - BOFH (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Robert Boyle (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Tom (UnitedLayer) (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Eric A. Hall (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses John Payne (Feb 09)
- Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) Sean Donelan (Feb 09)
- Re: Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) Kevin Oberman (Feb 09)
- Re: Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) doug (Feb 09)
- Re: Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) Wayne E. Bouchard (Feb 09)
- Re: Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 09)
- Re: Network and security experts (was Re: Dumb users spread viruses) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 09)