Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Richard M. Smith quoted:
> So Rickels dumped the bank's AV software for a whitelisting product and
> in the process, become one of its first commercial customers. 

Wrong answer.  The correct answer is to recognize that any operating
system which requires anti-virus software is fundamentally, deeply
broken and to either (a) fix it (b) get it fixed or (c) dump it.

The band-aid approach was proven to be a total failure decades ago.

---Rsk
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