[RTC List] 60 Minutes story: The Internet is Infected

[robert beckerdite]

Free AV is awesome for home users just remember that most free Antivirus is provided by companies to earn commercial business sales.  The line from Avast! is:

 

 "avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Both conditions should be met!"   

 

(My Parallels and Fusion users are all using them in business)


Robert Beckerdite
Senior Engineer and Owner
Beckerdite Consulting
(707) 703-1528
www.beckerdite.com



 


Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:18:08 -0700
From: dave at dcta.com
To: robert at beckerdite.com
CC: dwightw at mac.com; pat_bitton at eurestopartners.com; list at redwoodtech.org
Subject: Re: [RTC List] 60 Minutes story: The Internet is Infected

Robert, Avast! offers a free AV client for Windows, which might run fine in a virtual machine.  However if there is synergy between the Mac and AV instances it would be an awfully good idea to go for a combined subscription.  I don't know if Avast! has a free Mac client.  

robert beckerdite wrote: 


How many mac users are virtualizing XP and not running an antivirus or installing patches on the VM XP install?  I found a good price for Avast Antivirus both a PC and Mac license for 49.95 which might be a good price for all the Fusion and Bootcamp users. 

Robert Beckerdite
Senior Engineer and Owner
Beckerdite Consulting
(707) 703-1528
www.beckerdite.com



 
> From: dwightw at mac.com
> To: pat_bitton at eurestopartners.com
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:30:02 -0600
> CC: list at redwoodtech.org
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] 60 Minutes story: The Internet is Infected
> 
> Of course the REAL trick is to get people to turn on their Anti-Virus, 
> Anti-Spam, Firewall Protections, and then keep them up to date on a 
> regular basis. It is amazing how many people I come across who either 
> have them turned off "because they are such a hassle and always coming 
> on when we log on", or they think that once they are installed updates 
> never have to be run. I had someone's Mac last week that was causing 
> file corruption because of ancient anti-virus software that had never 
> been upgraded or updated, but was still on.
> 
> - Dwight
> 
> On 30 Mar 2009, at 6:14 PM, Pat Bitton wrote:
> 
> > Despite all 60 Minutes' (and Symantec's) attempts at the contrary, 
> > the sky
> > is not going to fall on April 1st. Anyone whose system is patched up 
> > to date
> > and who has updated anti-virus protection from a reputable vendor 
> > (with
> > heuristic detection for preference, as this will block any new 
> > iterations of
> > Conficker that appear) is unlikely to experience any ill-effects.
> >
> > Interestingly, the number of new virus examples appearing in labs 
> > every day
> > was actually under-estimated by Symantec. AVG (full disclosure: I am a
> > contractor for them) has between 20,000 and 30,000 new samples 
> > arriving in
> > their labs every day. BUT most of these never make it into the wild, 
> > so all
> > that updating really doesn't improve protection to any significant 
> > degree.
> >
> > The bad guys on the Internet are mostly in Russia and China. This 
> > has been
> > the case for several years. Anyone interested in the backstory 
> > should check
> > out the archives at Roger Thompson's blog,
> > http://tcsltesting.blogspot.com/index.html.
> >
> > Pat Bitton
> > Partner, Euresto Partners Inc
> > Sales & Marketing Strategies for Technology Startups
> > +1 707 268 8968/+1 408 464 0829 cell
> > MSN IM: pbitton at hotmail.com
> > Skype: pat.bitton
> > Follow me on Twitter @PatBitton
> > www.eurestopartners.com
> >
> > Looking for security advice? Check out
> > www.theinternetprotectors.com
> >
> >
> 
> 
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