Corporate Anti-Virus strategies

[mattg at timesucker.ne.client2.attbi.com (Matt Galster)]

That will be a good question when linux gains ascendency.  When the crackers turn their attentioin to linux, we may have just as much fun as the windows issues we face now.

MEG

Seth Gordon
> Subject: Re: Corporate Anti-Virus strategies
> From: Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com>
> Date: 15 Aug 2003 11:03:21 -0400
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:00, Duane Morin wrote:
> > 
> > It's a good question.  Education is always a good thing.  Unfortunately
> > you have to wonder whether people care to be enlightened.  If you just got 
> > whacked with a virus at home, and I either said to you "Here's a program 
> > you can run so you don't get viruses anymore" or I said "Let me explain to 
> > you why viruses happen...." I think that your typical home user wants the 
> > first one.  Immediate gratification.  "If I buy this Linux thing then I 
> > won't get viruses anymore, right?  Here's my credit card."
> 
> Ah, but why should the typical user believe that this hippie operating
> system that was patched together by a bunch of volunteers is more
> virus-proof than a product of a multi-million-dollar corporation?
> 
> -- 
> "It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books,
> movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder."  --Marilyn
> Manson
> // seth gordon // sethg at ropine.com // http://ropine.com/sethg/cv.html //
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at blu.org
> http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>