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Comments on: Column: Will you be ditching your antivirus app anytime soon?

As malware seems to be proliferating at an alarming rate, security vendors appear ready to rethink their approach to blocking code that may be harmful to your PC.

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by Mike Acker July 22, 2008 12:16 PM PDT: another thing that should enter the security consciousness of the computer user today is: who do i have in my list of Certificate Authorities?

when I checked the list on my computer I had to ask: who are all these guys and why should I trust any of them?

I threw the Turks out and nothing bad happened. Maybe I'll throw out somebody else a little later today.; Like this Reply to this comment

by yarlq July 22, 2008 12:39 PM PDT

Face it - the worst malware is Windows - the total time lost from Windoze crashes must exceed the time lost to viri and worms by a factor of 10.

And if Windoze had been coded correctly - a la Mac & Linux - the bad guys would have to work a lot harder to get in.

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by compudoc318 August 5, 2008 11:36 AM PDT: Whatever, if linux and osx were on 90% of the world computers, they would be just as vulnerable.; Like this


by thierrcosta July 30, 2008 4:09 PM PDT: I agree, enterprise class solutions have a way of trickling down to the desktop. White listing is also being used at the network level, for managing security configurations of the devices. Most device vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet allow network and security manager to configure denial lists, that look much like black lists. However, we are seeing enterprises move towards policy based configuration management, where white lists are used. These start-out as "denial all" and add accepted users for example to the lists. It turn out to be a safer and more manageable way of controlling things like access lists.
-- Thierry; Like this Reply to this comment


by compudoc318 August 5, 2008 11:39 AM PDT: This all sounds great, but watch, we'll all go to whitelisting, the hackers will find another way in, and bam.....now you need an anti-virus app again....... And too everyone thinking their machine is clean because thier antivirus app comes up clean, try scanning with another app, bet you find something.; Like this Reply to this comment


by thndersrage August 6, 2008 10:01 AM PDT: That is great, lets outsource our whitelists to one Server in the clouds, that way the bad guys only need to bust one comp to own them all.
Real smart...; Like this Reply to this comment


by ferretboy88 September 19, 2008 8:05 PM PDT: I have a custom made quad core machine with dual graphics cards. What does it hurt to run a free AV program. It doesn't slow anything down for me.; Like this Reply to this comment


by TG2008 September 29, 2008 2:44 AM PDT: Maybe having antivirus software isnt that important after all. I think I'll just make sure I have a good firewall and ditch my AV.
<a href="http://www.registrycleanerreviews.net">Julian</a>; Like this Reply to this comment


by LBrother November 19, 2008 11:32 AM PST: I have more than 500 applications on my home computer (written by me for my own use and research) which are not on any other computer (except a few that I also use on my work computer), and this does not count shell and perl scripts. White-listing would be a royal pain.

My new development cycle:
change application
compile
call AV vendor
wait for them to add signature
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