Non-rhetorical question: Is there a source of data showing 10,000 machines with AV are less likely to be infected than 10,000 machines without?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > There are plenty of AV products for *nix platforms. It's not that there is a > *huge* amount of viruses for those platforms, it's that those platforms are > often accessed by Windows platforms and the merchant should want to provide a > clean file to a customer... > > Mike B > > > Michael P. Blanchard > Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE > Office of Information Security & Risk Management > EMC ² Corporation > 4400 Computer Dr. > Westboro, MA 01580 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Drsolly > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:13 PM > To: Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] No AV? Shock, horror! > > Maybe some merchants don't use Windows? > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > >> PCI survey finds some merchants don't use antivirus software >> >> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/092309-pci-survey-finds-some- >> merchants.html?hpg1=bn >> >> (But absolutely no surprise whatsoever ...) >> >> ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) >> [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] >> Living well is the best revenge. >> George Herbert, 16th century English clergyman >> http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm >> http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade >> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ >> http://twitter.com/NoticeBored >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
