Corporate Anti-Virus strategies

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:48:56AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> individual components of Linux will have the same sort of monopoly that 
> Windows does ("this worm hits postgres, but I'm running mysql!") so you're 
> automaticlaly talking about a smaller scale.  But on the other hand it 
> will be worse because there won't be one single entity to look to for 
> fixes, and it may be more a case of trying to patch 100 small holes in the 
> dam rather than 1 or 2 gaping ones.

Counterargument: Red Hat and Debian, among others, provide single-source
fixes.

Counterargument: 100 small holes vs 1 or 2 large ones? You haven't been
reading Bugtraq. 

-dsr-

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