There are plenty of AV products for *nix platforms. It's not that there is a *huge* amount of viruses for those platforms, it's that those platforms are often accessed by Windows platforms and the merchant should want to provide a clean file to a customer...
Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Drsolly Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:13 PM To: Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] No AV? Shock, horror! Maybe some merchants don't use Windows? On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > PCI survey finds some merchants don't use antivirus software > > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092309-pci-survey-finds-some- > merchants.html?hpg1=bn > > (But absolutely no surprise whatsoever ...) > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > Living well is the best revenge. > George Herbert, 16th century English clergyman > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
