Sophisticated folks will know and do what you recommend below. For the unsophisticated folks, better that they have an automatically-enabled, OS manufacturer-supplied malware scanner than nothing at all. The box vendor can make his own decision as to what he wants to bundle and support with his machines.
Fred Holmes At 02:42 PM 11/22/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: >An anti-virus angle I did not think of... >An tech note from Apple urges the community to use a variety of >anti-virus applications. They point out that if a single anti-virus >program predominates, then virus writers will target that application to >find ways to get around it. > >Another reason why we don't want MS to bundle a free anti-virus program. >It will just make it easier for the virus writers. > >Nice to know whose side MS is really on. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
