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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Nov 24 13:30:42 2003

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:29:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3FC21740.8040603@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Most if not all computers that are sold (branded ones at least) do come
> with an antivirus + "personal firewall" (aka snake oil firewall, as
> vernon schryver keeps saying on news.admin.net-abuse.email and
> elsewhere) package, with 6 months to a year of free updates.

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?




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