>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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
