Re: A 6% fix from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-040 - 828750

From: Jim Eshelman (newsgroups_at_aumha.org)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:14:49 -0700

Me2 wrote:
> Car owners (on this planet) are thus blissfully un-aware about all
> kinds of lock defects (unless they need their car fixed and visit a
> fixit shop) - kind of a lock defect blindness.

This is where your analogy breaks down. In your analogy, yeah, there is no
reason someone would visit a lock fixit shop for a car lock they didn't know
was broken. But that's not a valid comparison to antivirus manufacturers.
Unlock car lock fixit shops for car owners, every single computer user needs
to have a good, updated antivirus program running that dynamically monitors
for virus intrusion. These are the people on whom one should rely for
antivirus protection, and Microsoft should (and, I believe, does) quietly
communicate with these entities even when they are not yet ready to release
information to the general public (which includes the burglars).

Anyone who is running a good, updated antivirus program that meets these
needs, there is no problem. Anyone who is not is, at best, seriously
ignorant of the current state of things. 

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