Re: Re: Sophos Anti Virus

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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:45:24 -0700,
  jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Apply the thought process to anti-malware. If your machine and your work
> is not valuable to you then forget anti-malware and plan to reinstall
> someday, practice safe browsing, play footsie with Nigerian spammers,
> and so forth. It's your prerogative.

What do you mean by anti-malware. If you mean the same as anti-virus,
than no I don't want it. Anti-virus software has significant performance
costs, risks of being an entry point for attack by malware itself and
may cause problems when there are false positives. And it doesn't really
work. You'd need to go to a white list or signed code system. Those also
have costs, but at least in theory they work.

If by anti-malware you are encompassing things such as selinux, sandboxing
and firewalls, then use some of that has more benefit than cost.
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