>> OK, why is this a bad idea? > > That is a very long post I'm not willing to make again. The many and varied > issues with AV are well documented not eh Internet. The short list is that AV > software introduces its own deep vulnerabilities and exposes your system to > those new flaws that the OS vendor can't mitigate and that it draws excessive > resources. There are more issues than those, of course.
That would be referring to real-time scanning I take it? If you are only using non-real-time scanning (Checking files on a disk as opposed to checking running programs) do those problems still exist? >> 2. What is wrong with bit torrent? > > Downloading software from bit torrent is unsafe as many torrents include > trojans or malware. > >> I know that bad stuff can be seeded, and labeled as "good". >> But it is no different than downloading anything else. > > Yes, it is very different from downloading from a known source. Can you please explain how downloading a bit torrent file from a known good seed is any different than downloading a file directly from a known source? (I seriously thought it was effectively equivalent, other than speed issues) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
