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On 03/11/12 20:09, Martijn Grooten wrote:
I normally run an AV as I get a lot of mail and so get a lot of win viruses that are passing around. At least I know not to forward those ones on and make things worse for the lcc (lower computer classes). On the odd occasion I take a look in the quarantine and check out a virus or too. All I can say is there is some advantage to not teaching computing as thoroughly as they could.On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Simon Avery wrote:Anyone else remember Macafee being caught paying virus writers to give them the source a few days ahead of new viruses being released into the wild?This is simply not true. (In fact, I've worked in IT security long enough to at least have known it if such a rumour were spreading. I had never heard of it.) As for running AV on Linux: as others have said, you're unlikely to really need it. But beware that most vulnerabilities used in drive-by-download attacks are platform independent; it'd be easy for the bad guys to add. So at least make sure your browser and it's plugins are up-to date. Except for Java, that shouldn't be running in a browser at all. (If you really need it, use a secondary browser for it. Or enable it only when you're going to need it.) Martijn.
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