[PLUG] Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product (fwd)

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> writes:

Ed> I can't seem to come up with a scenario where I would
Ed> care about this. Nothing I do here makes me vulnerable
Ed> to viruses. My email program doesn't automatically run
Ed> binary attachments, javascript, etc. I don't run FTP.
Ed> I strictly control access via my firewall. I generally
Ed> install new software from source. My desktop computer
Ed> doesn't run any daemons that are better run on a server.
Ed> My server daemons run as non-root and in a jail or
Ed> on a separate computer or in a UML when that's not
Ed> possible.

Nor would I, because the data I'm interested in protecting would
never been on a Linux Box.  It's OpenBSD all the way baybee!

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