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Antivirus protection: Why it’s a big deal

Posted by tadelste on · 4 comments
KPC News; By MICHAEL FRALEY
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F-Prot (www.f-prot.com) is a free antivirus for Linux and BSD, but the Frisk Software people, who are based in Iceland, also have a version of F-Prot for Windows. Finally, for our friends running Mac OS X, there is ClamXAv (http://clamxav.com/), courtesy of British systems analyst and software developer Mark Allan.

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Comments (4)

Wow, at least 12 year old anti-virus software

Well, that author sure stays on top of things. He says he uses anti-virus software that is more than 12 years old. I bet that is good at keeping all the latest exploits out.

For the geographically challenged, I will explain. He says he uses software from Czechoslovakia. That country ceased to exist on Jan 1, 1993.

This is the the grist for mainstream America.

The article exemplifies the kind of reporting people get - not only in mainstream publications but also in the backwoods of Indiana.

Before Linspire started offering click'n'run antivirus software, the number one complaint the company got from their users was that it had no antivirus. And *everyone* knows that you should *always* have antivirus software installed. Linspire had no choice but to concede and offer AV for Linspire.
I live in the backwoods of Indiana. This is Pulitzer Prize stuff compared to what we normally get.

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