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Re: Fed up with Antivir
de Tim Weaver 04/28/2006 12:32
Jast wrote:
> Don't use one. I think they cause far more trouble than they are worth!
> They slow your machine down. One of them incorrectly quarantined my
> mum's email and totally stuffed that up. It locked Thunderbird's inbox
> so that it couldn't compact and the file grew to over 1Gb. I had to
> stuff around to fix it.
>
> Keep your system patched instead and exercise common sense, ie don't
> open dodgy emails, and you will be fine. Ideally you should sit behind a
> hardware firewall like a router, but you can also run up a software
> firewall.
>
> People have this false sense that because they are running AV software
> that they are safe and secure.
You are insane.
--
Tim Weaver
I know you think you understand what you thought I said,
but I am not so sure what you heard is not what I meant.
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