Corporate Anti-Virus strategies

[sethg at ropine.com (Seth Gordon)]

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:00, Duane Morin wrote:
> 
> It's a good question.  Education is always a good thing.  Unfortunately
> you have to wonder whether people care to be enlightened.  If you just got 
> whacked with a virus at home, and I either said to you "Here's a program 
> you can run so you don't get viruses anymore" or I said "Let me explain to 
> you why viruses happen...." I think that your typical home user wants the 
> first one.  Immediate gratification.  "If I buy this Linux thing then I 
> won't get viruses anymore, right?  Here's my credit card."

Ah, but why should the typical user believe that this hippie operating
system that was patched together by a bunch of volunteers is more
virus-proof than a product of a multi-million-dollar corporation?

-- 
"It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books,
movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder."  --Marilyn
Manson
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