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It’s time to toss out your antivirus software
Lockedfrom our own George Ou [ http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=234 ]
Well here we go again. Have-truths, and no solutions. I’m really going to have to both agree with you and disagree also. Yes, I do think that there could be a vulnerability in an Anti-Virus, or any program that is open to the world via the internet. But to even sugest that users not use an Anti-Virus program is just plain irresponsible. George, I glad to hear that you’ve never been exposed to a virus, but in the rest of the world, we’re swamped with them. Most users, the people that we must deal with, get viruses all the time, daily in some cases. And, yes Viruses can get in without admin rights, they usually don’t ask permission to infect your computer. I had one last week, I didn’t ‘click’ anything, it tried to enter from an infected web-site. (it was a “WinFixer” variant) fortunatly I cought it, and yes I got rid of it too. (That one is not easy either) That is with two firewalls and an Anti-Virus program. It just happens sometimes.
And, No, I would not recomend to anyone to rely on MicroSoft to protect them from viruses or anything else either. Dot it ever occure to you that if you apply the same reasoning to MicroSoft as you have to the Anit-Virus programs, you will have the same results, mass infections. You do realize how easy it is to access millions of computers through MicroSoft itself, don’t you? Other people sure do.
So, Yes, You do have a valid point about a possible point of entry in the Anti-Virus programs, your solution is NOT a good one. Anyone else have some input on this? (besides me) -d