bugtraq - Re: The incredible gayness of antivirus-vendors and their products (in this case, NAV corp. ed.)

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:24:17 -0700
From: "morning_wood" <se_cur_ity@...mail.com>
To: Knud Højgaard <kh@...ecomplus.dk>,
   <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Cc: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: The incredible gayness of antivirus-vendors and their products (in this case, NAV corp. ed.)

> The obvious retardedness of labelling my damn generic exploit as
being a virus aside, it strikes me as 'funny' that I am still
available > The same sort of bullshit as above except "Virus name:
FreeBSD.Rootkit".
> Uh, that's incorrect to say the least - this is no rootkit.
>
> Antivirus-software is protection for people against yesterdays
threats.
> Antivirus-software is protection for moronic users against
themselves.
> Antivirus-software is crap. I say we kill the users and be done with
it.

This is one of the major reasons I do not use AV on
 any of my 4 internet connected  system in my home network.

morning_wood
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