On Thu, October 9, 2014 7:41 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/9/2014 8:18 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
M$ Windows is the only OS (and I knew quite a few of the past and know quite a few of present) whose creators tell you you can not safely run it without 3rd part software (anti-virus)...
Windows has included a decent A/V system, variously called Microsoft Security Essentials, and Microsoft Defender for the last several major releases.
Please roll the time back and change it from "IS" to "was for over decade which changed just a year or two ago".
any other fables?
Not yet, but I'm inventive.
BTW, the whole idea of "antivirus" is flawed. It is based on "enumerate bad". You can't, as one never knows what will be invented in a future. Good approach would be: enumerate good and ban everything else. Which we usually do when configuring firewalls. Selinux (even though I have different opinion about its usefulness) uses this not flawed approach (consider this my next fable).
Valeri
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