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Re: Fed up with Antivir
de Jast 04/28/2006 09:30
Hmmn, I don't know about that.
My mum is an average user and all the media hype about viruses has her
scared to death which is what the AV companies want, however I've now
got her using common sense and she hasn't had a problem. Viruses mainly
spread through stupidity.
I've never had a virus or malicious infections and have never run AV
software both at home or at work. I highly recommend a hardware firewall
and common sense. Use a good email client, ie thunderbird or one that is
more secure than the most common one and you should be right.
Anyway it is personal preference, so no use going on about it.
Kerodo wrote:
> In article <445144ec$0$20112$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
> jastx@jastx.com says...
>> 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.
>
> While this can be done by one with some experience, this is not good
> advice for the 'average user'..
>
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