Re: No AV? Shock, horror!

[<Blanchard_Michael () emc com>]

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: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:13 PM
To: Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
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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 ...)
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