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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++