[65345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Nov 24 13:52:15 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:48:55 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311241328190.4120-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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