On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:22:43PM -0600, John W. Lemons III wrote:
> >Then ignore that minority group and don't prolong their agony by giving
> >them access to non-solutions like virus scanners.
>
> I disagree with the assertion that virus scanners are non-solutions.
me too.
> On the
> mail servers I run, I have installed some simple virus scanning software,
> and it has, up to now, filtered out lots of incoming virii and trojans, as
> well as a few outgoing virii (which alerted me as to who was infected, and
> allowed me to advise the IT folks so they could go clean it up). Its not a
> perfect solution, but its far better than nothing, and results in our
> location not becoming a source for that kind of garbage.
wrong. You pretend to provide security, but in reality you still allow
your clients to behave stupid and catch a virus.
btw: what's your IT department good for? Reinstalling windows after it got
infected by a virus? If that happened on an important machine - with
valuable data - they shouldn't be allowed to do so, instead they
should be fired, possibly together with the user.
A virus might happen on a sandbox. Nowhere else.
I recognize that people seem to see virus as got-sent, but they aren't.
A virus infection is a sign that someone - and possibly also the ones
who should have teached that someone - made an error.
Regards, Uwe
