Re: MS to charge for security?
- From: <Vanguard>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:15:02 -0500
"NoStop" <nostop@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:yw4he.1338248$6l.1054361@xxxxxxxxxxx
<Vanguard> wrote:
So anti-virus software is only needed for Windows? Hmm, wonder why thoseAV vendors have *NIX versions of their products.
Essentially to offer protection for Windoze computers connected to a Linux
network.
AV software protects the host on which it executes, not the hosts that connect to it because it can't do anything over there (unless it is also running over there but then there becomes the local host on which the AV runs). AV programs don't protect hosts that connect to you. You are really concerned about a virus on a Window host connecting to your Linux host if the virus couldn't also run on your Linux host? So how would that be different than a Linux host connecting to you and passing on the same virus that runs under Linux? AV protects you, not them, and them could be any platform.
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