On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:36:57PM +0200, Jurian van der Knaap wrote:
> >Antiviruses don't work and create a false sense of security.
>
> That's nonsense really, of course antivirus software wont stop everything,
> but if you keep it up to date, it WILL stop quite a few emails from those
Felix is right.
As this mailing list (or, to name another popular example, the
openssl mailing list) proved a number of times the damage to me
done by bad antivirus systems is quite large. They costed band-
width (i pay for it), hard disk space and _time_. They costed
the time needed to answer legitimate requests ...
And _no_ damage was done by any virus, until now.
I don't care how others protect themselves. Protect? "Hey boss,
i need 20 hours of vacation once and now, and X hours of vacation
per week, so please let me install an virus scanner". "Oh, SirCam
came through it, bad luck, update was scheduled twelve hours
later".
I just want protection from stupid idiots and people wasting my
time. People running virus scanners which are not absolutely
invisible to the outside _are_ vasting my time. And people
who have virus problem _today_ are idiots. Everybody with the
smallest possible amount of brain could have understood, by now
(it's 2001!), that they are supposed to sue the makers of
bad software.
> lovely M$ outlook users that are too often loaded with virusses. As for
Kill outlook. It's garbage - as proven by it's history of security
problems. You want security? Ask them to use mutt.
> your comment on a false sense of security, that's like saying, don't bother
> wearing a bulletproof vest, it just creates a false sense of security. Like
> saying, don't lock your door, it just creates a false sense of security. Of
> course it doesn't help against everything, just like antivirus won't catch
> every virus. Nothing is perfect!
Aha. That's your excuse for using something 100% away from perfection.
I see.
Regards, Uwe
