Dumb users spread viruses

Mon Feb 9 17:24:13 UTC 2004

At 02:46 PM 2/8/2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
>In this past year's tour of my friends and family, I've taken to removing
>their antivirus software at the same time I remove their spyware, and I've
>taken to installing Mozilla (with its IMAP client) as a way to keep the
>machine from having any dependency on anti-virus software.  IT managers are
>encouraged to consider a similar move next time they're asked to approve
>the renewal costs of a campus-wide anti-virus license.

Do you honestly think that any IT manager is going to be successful getting 
an entire company to dump Outlook/Exchange and stop using anti-virus 
software?  Do you have an example (within the North American area of 
interest to NANOG members) where this has actually happened?

IMHO, if you can convince an Outlook/Exchange using company to dump MS for 
email, you can convince them to dump MS/Windoze OSs entirely, which is a 
much more complete way to solve this problem.

jc

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