Antivirus

Tue Jun 17 12:13:52 UTC 2008

Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:

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Please don't post in HTML, and please don't top-post, it makes it hard to
have a conversation.

> Good point. 
[re, passing on infected viruses to windows users]

> Thanks for mentioning it. 

The simplest solution doesn't involve anti-virus software - it involves not
forwarding attachments.  I swear, in 20 years of email, I haven't needed to
forward an attachment I haven't personally edited (e.g., Word documents I'm
collaborating on with somebody) more than a handful of times, and the ones
I've edited tend to be passed by better methods than email.

> Slightly off the topic, I  
> have never ceased to be amazed at the attitude some Windows users seem
> to have. I think it's due to ignorance, mostly. Most don't know that
> Avast or AVG are good anti-virus programs and Norton and Mcafee are
> not. 

What do you base that on?  I think it's safe to say that Norton and McAfee
are practically identical, so what goes for one goes for the other, but I
personally find it very hard to imagine Avast or AVG do any better job. 
All anti-virus software necessarily is playing catchup to the actual
viruses, and nothing catches the newest ones, unless they're similar enough
to older ones.  
-- 
derek