Virus Guy wrote in news:4724A240.5F2C0683@Guy.com:
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> I've been running Windows OneCare on three different
>> computers for over two years now. No viruses, no spyware,
>> and no malware has entered any on my PCs using OneCare.
>
> How do you know?
>
> How do you know if an AV product is working?
>
> Just because it keeps telling you that there is no malware on your
> system doesn't mean you don't actually have malware on your system.
>
> The polymorphic threats out there (like storm) have been deactivating
> AV programs for 2 or 3 years now.
polymorphic? Erm....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code
Storm doesn't fit the bill for Polymorphic. It makes no effort to alter
it's own code once present on your machine.
> And if you really don't have any malware on your system, don't credit
> your AV software. The reason you don't is because you patch your
> system as soon as the patches become available.
Uhh, no. I develop software on this machine and I need to keep a constant
environment as such, I don't go for the newest patch right away. In
fact, this machine is still using sp1, and isn't even allowed to let me
know about new patches, let alone download them. Why am I not worried you
might ask? I'm behind a real firewall and I routinely practice safe hex.
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