Re: Anti Virus: Improving the current defense strategy.

From: Gary Mills (mills@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Date: 12/12/01 

From: mills@cc.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Date: 12 Dec 2001 20:21:29 GMT

In <3c178e9b_2@news.nwlink.com> "Robert Connor" <robertc@NOSPAMthielsen.com> writes:

>Why will no one blame the virus writers. Blaming Microsoft is like blaming
>the contractor who built a person who's home that was burglarized because
>the contractor did not install solid steel doors and bullet proof windows.

Because when the homeowner looks out the window, he can't distinguish
a burglar from a friendly visitor. So, he opens the door and lets
him in.

Of course, analogies never fit computer security issues accurately,
and often obscure the actual problem. 

-- 
-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

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