actually, I think that the anti-virus that comes with Windows is only available for desktop OSs like Windows 7, and not available for the Server OSs like 2008 R2. On 10/9/2014 6:07 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Igal Sapir Railo Core Developer http://getRailo.org/