Subj : Re: Security Suites for c
To   : Bex
From : Atreyu
Date : Thu Aug 04 2022 06:22:04

On 03 Aug 22  19:29:00, Bex said the following to Atreyu:

At> If you are smart enough not to click on malware/phishing links and you
At> don't just blindly install whatever from the net, you don't need
At> anything.
B> 
B> I don't mean to sound b***hy, but I think this is very bad advice. There's a
B> war between bad actors and users, and some of the bad actors are very good.
B> Social engineering makes things worse.

Been doing this a long time... I cannot be tricked by a bad actor and stand
by my words, having not used virus protection for 2 decades even with all
the fun of XP.

Most of them all run the same - checking signatures, often times "too late"
against zero-day attacks, and todays situations often involve either security
problems with OS's or websites. Often times the products themselves are 
bloated, overpriced, and only present themselves when they detect a false 
positive or nagging for signature updates or to perform a scan even when 
nothing has been downloaded. Antivirus software itself is "scare-ware"...

Phishing attacks are so common now, that if you as a user are not educating 
yourself against what is a real link or not, you clearly get whats 
deserved. There have never been situations in my life where I have been 
tricked into entering credentials or visiting some link that was bogus.

It is also not necessary to run virus protection on dedicated BBS computers or
situations where installing software or clicking links just never happens. If
you don't want users uploading viruses to your board, don't accept uploads.

Atreyu

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