[76652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Vincent)
Sun Dec 19 18:49:59 2004
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:49:28 -0800
From: David Vincent <support@sleepdeprived.ca>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0412191648470.651@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>...the infection rate of Home/SOHO computers with AV/firewalls is higher than "naked" computers.
>
>
please, where does this information come from? are you sitting on proof
that the Home AV/Security industry is *complete* FUD? :)
>What's more interesting is the highest infection rate of all is for homes
>with laptop/mobile computers.
>
is that so? please, where does *this* information come from? it might
seem intuitively correct, but i'd like to see some numbers and other
data to back these claims up.
thanks
-d
