Subj : Re: Security Suites for c
To   : Atreyu
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Aug 05 2022 19:27:00

-=> On 08-04-22 06:22, Atreyu wrote to Bex <=-

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

In some cases, the cure is worse than the disease.  While this machine does
have antivirus (Windows Defender), others have nothing.

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

I will qualify that as "it depends on the user".  It's likely that a
significant proportion of the userbase these days is neurodivergent in some
way, and that increases the odds of uncanny pattern recognition (like me). 
This is the best antiviros of all.  If it was possible to convert that ability
to code, computer viruses wouldn't propagate at all.  

Another advantage of this ability is that it gets better of time, one can make
use of the accumulated data of decades of experience to recognise even totally
new scams, phishing or whatever.

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

Agree totally.  My BBS machine is Linux on ARM, so a Windows virus is nothing
more than a harmless bit of junk that needs to be deleted. :)  



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