Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh at outblaze.com
Mon Nov 24 18:48:55 UTC 2003
Sean Donelan writes on 11/24/2003 1:29 PM:
>
> If most if not all computers that are sold include antivirus + personal
> firewalls, who is selling all the computers being infected with worms,
> virus, malware?
>
Er... two or three obvious reasons - there might be more.
# Users not updating their virus / firewall definitions, not paying for
new definitions after their year of free definitions is done.
# Users leaving open windows shares, clicking on random windows
attachments etc
# Viruses keeping one step ahead of antivirus vendors
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