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Re: Anti-virus protection gets worse
From: Buford <buford () greenjeans net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:48:54 -0600
I would bet money that this whole episode with whacking the exploder.exe (or whatever it was called) by the same software that the dumb user trusted will be in Marcus' next speech on how we should be a white-list world. I still have an outstanding dinner bet with a friend that he still uses some form of Wordstar for DOS for his text editing. On Dec 21, 2007 2:04 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah < rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:12:08 -0500 From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>German computer magazine c't <blocked::http://www.heise.de/ct/> studied17antivirus programs and exposed them to completely new samples ofmalware. Argh. Not *this* old chestnut again ...
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- Anti-virus protection gets worse Richard M. Smith (Dec 21)
- Re: Anti-virus protection gets worse Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Dec 21)
- Re: Anti-virus protection gets worse Buford (Dec 21)
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- RE: Anti-virus protection gets worse Thomas Raef (Dec 22)
- RE: Anti-virus protection gets worse Hubbard, Dan (Dec 22)
- Re: Anti-virus protection gets worse Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Dec 21)