web kracked wrote:
> Last INDEPENDANT source of information about
> Anti-Virus software stated that AVG was an overall better
> choice than all but the most expensive corporate AV's

Not only that, but (unlike MacAfee) AVG, Avast, Antivir, Clamav, etc.,
have not been deliberately crippled with code designed to ignore certain
viruses and trojans.

I still remember when MacAfee announced publicly that they had rewritten
their program to ignore the FBI's keylogger programs, back when
Carnivore was in the news. I stopped using their product that day, and
have never gone back. All a black hat needs to do to get past MacAfee's
software is write their code to look like the FBI's code, and MacAfee
will ignore it. Open source products like Clamav don't do that, and
won't, because any independent programmer can look at the source code
and make sure that it's a good program, without any such gaping holes in it.

Just call it another victory for FOSS.

-- 
When you let people do what they want, you get Woodstock.
When you let governments do what they want, you get Auschwitz.

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