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Terry Hill wrote: > > For clarity, I wrote a small response to a question posed by Peter in > case anyone reading this thinks I asked about running a pc without > antimalware ;) Given the current "hit" rate of antivirus software, most novel (i.e. dangerous) threats are not detected by most antivirus software, the virus authors are winning on that front. Wrong approach -- fingerprinting really isn't that hard, detecting malware by it's behaviour is hard, but clearly a better approach than trying to enumerate the bad code. I'd tend to the don't use Windows for that sort of thing school of thought. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html