The role of antivirus in security

g4z3 g4z3g4z3 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 05:18:28 PDT 2017


On 6/18/2017 03:57, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On 06/16/2017 04:17 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>> https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security#
>>
>> | (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date.
>> | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats.
>> | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret.
>>
>> Does (1) makes much sense?
>> Does the order (1), (2) make any sense?
> Would running an operating system incompatible with 100% of the viruses
> in the wild count as anti-virus protection? That's worked for me a hell
> of a lot better than proprietary scanners which really just enumerate
> badness [1] and are thus doomed to eventual failure.
>
> The order of (1) and (2) don't really matter as they are really about
> equal. In my case, they essentially amount to the same thing.
>
> [1]: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
>

Just curious, but what's your choice of OS?

g4z3

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