Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:51:29 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:38:23 -0400
"Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com> wrote:

> However, I will say that while preventing infections from arriving is
> not foolproof, doing a scan-on-close with the option to delete or
> quarantine an infected file goes a long way.

How can you, as a security professional, argue for a security measure
that you know is flawed, when there is a mailing list full of people
willing to help figure out what a working security measure would look
like?

Yes, abandoning some of the old DOS anti-virus security model may
cause work, but surely that will be worth it if it leads to a more
secure system?

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