The role of antivirus in security
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security# | (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret. Does (1) makes much sense? Does the order (1), (2) make any sense?
On 06/16/2017 05:17 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security#
| (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret.
Does (1) makes much sense? Does the order (1), (2) make any sense?
inb4 "Microsoft and Security are mutually exclusive." Now more than ever: Vault 7 (Assange breaking the CIA's fingers one at a time by exposing the back doors Microsoft has given them) has already enabled private sector criminals to up their game significantly and it ain't over yet. (Fun project for some enterprising geek: Compare MS patches with /subsequent/ Vault 7 releases to see if/when they start closing back doors in advance of their disclosure by Wikileaks. Another and possibly more interesting project: Find the new back doors introduced in the same update packages.) A good back door looks just like a random programming or configuration error: https://web.archive.org/web/20130615071200/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201... Given that, and the equally obvious fact that British Airways customers will not change out their operating systems because a website told them to, a certain amount of arm-waving as evidence of due diligence will have to do. The order in which suggestions are given don't much matter. :o/
On 06/16/2017 04:17 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security#
| (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret.
Does (1) makes much sense? Does the order (1), (2) make any sense?
Would running an operating system incompatible with 100% of the viruses
in the wild count as anti-virus protection? That's worked for me a hell
of a lot better than proprietary scanners which really just enumerate
badness [1] and are thus doomed to eventual failure.
The order of (1) and (2) don't really matter as they are really about
equal. In my case, they essentially amount to the same thing.
[1]: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
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Shawn K. Quinn
On 6/18/2017 03:57, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 06/16/2017 04:17 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security#
| (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret.
Does (1) makes much sense? Does the order (1), (2) make any sense? Would running an operating system incompatible with 100% of the viruses in the wild count as anti-virus protection? That's worked for me a hell of a lot better than proprietary scanners which really just enumerate badness [1] and are thus doomed to eventual failure.
The order of (1) and (2) don't really matter as they are really about equal. In my case, they essentially amount to the same thing.
[1]: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
Just curious, but what's your choice of OS? g4z3
On 06/20/2017 07:18 AM, g4z3 wrote:
Just curious, but what's your choice of OS?
Right now, Ubuntu GNU/Linux 16.04 LTS, occasionally booting into Tails
for some things. In the past I've used Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, and various other GNU/Linux distributions.
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Shawn K. Quinn
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