[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:24 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: RE: Best way to backup a specific drive?
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 07:19 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Well fwiw, installing the free AVG prints such messages to
both incomming
> and outgoing scanned messages/files and cannot be blocked by
the user other
> than to remove or buy the professional AVG product. I agree
that all computer
> users should have Anti-S/V programs installed and to secure
their systems, as
> I do, but don't take my word for it, scan and scan again to
your heart's content!
The problem is that such an advertisement proves nothing about the
message contents, it's completely unverifiable. And, worse, it
encourages people to believe such messages in their incoming
mail. It's
really a bad thing to encourage complacency.
> I have yet to find a free product such as AVG from the
OpenSource community that
> is fully-loaded and fully-automatic such as professional
AV/S products provide
> and hence the reason for my continued use of AVG.
Use it, fine, encourage other people to scan for viruses, fine. But
just don't include *its* message that encourages bad things
(complacency).
Though, for what it's worth, I don't think very highly of AVG. Too
often I've seen it warn a person that their computer has become
infected, while it did nothing to prevent it becoming infected, and
would do nothing to disinfect it. I laughed my head off at the friend
who struck that. He had to reformat to get rid of the virus, nothing
would actually do it that he tried.
Trust me, the file I've attached to this e-mail is safe to run, it will
not cause any damage to your computer.
Yes, I am aware of it, but again I cannot prevent the messages being
sent. Since you do not believe AVG is a good product, do you have any
suggestion as to what is a great free product for all platforms? I am
using an M$ platform as well as many un*x variants (Solaris, Linux, and
others)? I would LOVE to learn of other products especially that of network
based A-V/S products, free, of course. I am but poor and cannot afford
the fee nor subscriptions.
Kind regards,
Dan
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.37/1042 - Release Date: 10/1/2007 6:59 PM