[65354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Nov 24 15:26:41 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:24:58 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
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 wrote:
>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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Just got a new off the shelf PC, manufactured on 13th Nov 2003. Comes with
NAV2003 and virus definitions from late 2002 installed. This is on a model
that has been shipping for less than two months. Probably is not worth
mentioning
that windowsupdate provided with 10+ critical and 10+ other updates (the OS
had Service Pack 1 installed)
The box should have been labeled "donīt connect this device to the
public internet".
Pete
