[67277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stopping open proxies and open relays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Sat Feb 7 00:19:56 2004
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 00:15:11 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402062258250.10931-100000@mobile.adis.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:00 AM 2/7/2004, Adi Linden wrote:
> > > There are valid reasons not to run antivirus software,
> >
> > And they are?
>
>P90w/32MB running Win95 used for email only...
Odd... When that was a state of the art machine for which I paid $3k+ in
1995 (IRC) I used a CLI virus scanner and before I opened anything from a
BBS or the Internet, I would scan it. AVAST, FSecure, Norton, McAfee, and
all others with which I am familiar still have a CLI version too. If it is
only used for email, they can probably wait a few seconds longer to access
files. They are already waiting a long time to do anything with that
computer. :)
>or insufficient finances to purchase anti virus software... to name a couple.
Not a valid excuse/reason. www.avast.com - It is excellent AV software and
it is completely FREE for non-commercial use.
R
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