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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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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