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Antivirus stinks (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 08:08:57 AM PDT

Antivirus software today is pretty bad anyway. It only protects against yesterday's malware, slows your PC to a crawl while it scans every file as it's accessed, and hogs a rather large bit of your memory and CPU. As fast as today's malware spreads, your users (the ones that like to click on every attachment despite all of the warnings they've been given) have a pretty good chance of getting infected even if you have fully up-to-date antivirus software. On top of that, once infected, very few of these programs are capable of removing the infections (once they actually have signatures), despite their claims to the contrary.


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