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Re: The history of AV and its founders


From: Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:57:11 -0500

I will say that as the original poster of this pile of shite, I regret it.  I should have prefaced the post with a 
"WTF", since it is a pretty awful "history". 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:47 PM
To: security curmudgeon
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] The history of AV and its founders

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, security curmudgeon wrote:



On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Drsolly wrote:

: > : I tried putting some of the correct information in, such as the 
founding
: > : date, and it was changed back to the wrong information.
: > : 
: > : Which, I know, sounds just like Wikipedia. :o)
: >
: > Why not post it here, so your information is in another place? Let 
funsec
: > judge the information, both (?) sides.
:  
: Great, another democracy deciding what's true.

When you have several untrusted sources of information, what else can 
you do except consider all sides and judge for yourself?
 
You can look at who is likely to actually know what happened, as distinct from people who arrived 20 years later and 
made guesses. 



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