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Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware
From: "Jason Frisvold" <xenophage0 () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:59:45 -0500
On 2/23/06, Andy Davidson <andy () nosignal org> wrote:
And they don't care ! How is someone else telling them that they need a virus checker going to change anything ?
It's not. That's why services such as AOL integrate it with the system.. Granted, the user has to initially accept it, but it's a virtually painless process.. AOL's software does all the work. If a user has to download each individual program, install it, ensure it's updated, etc., then they tend to ignore the use of such a product. Even mostly-automated updates are a burden for them because messages pop up now and then telling them that they're not up to date, warnings about new outbreaks, etc. Most users don't care one way or the other and it's simpler for them to ignore the whole situation. For something like AVG, yes it's free. But, I don't think that includes allowing an ISP to package it up and distribute it as a value-added feature.. Most companies frown on that sort of thing. I believe even Microsoft's EULA forbids distributing SP2 without strict permission.
-a
-- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold XenoPhage0 () gmail com
Current thread:
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware, (continued)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Gadi Evron (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jason Frisvold (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Michael . Dillon (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Bill Nash (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jason Frisvold (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jason Frisvold (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware PC (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Larry Smith (Feb 21)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Andy Davidson (Feb 22)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jason Frisvold (Feb 23)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jack Bates (Feb 23)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Michael Loftis (Feb 23)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Gadi Evron (Feb 23)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Michael Loftis (Feb 23)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Jim Segrave (Feb 28)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 28)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Bill Nash (Feb 28)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 28)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware David Nolan (Feb 28)
- Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware Bill Nash (Feb 21)