Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Sean Donelan  writes on 11/24/2003 1:29 PM:

> If most if not all computers that are sold include antivirus + personal
> firewalls, who is selling all the computers being infected with worms,
> virus, malware?

Er... two or three obvious reasons - there might be more.

# Users not updating their virus / firewall definitions, not paying for 
new definitions after their year of free definitions is done.

# Users leaving open windows shares, clicking on random windows 
attachments etc

# Viruses keeping one step ahead of antivirus vendors

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