From: Mike Ryan (mike94109_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 23:21:29 EDT
--- TechShop <techshop_at_ameritech.net> wrote:
> Anyone using Symantec's AV for OS/2?
> It comes on the Symantec Enterprise AV cd's.
> Matt
>
there is no reason to:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h_at_mm.html
Symantec doesn't even list OS/2 as an operating system
that has to concern itself over viru.
I'm not kidding when I say the OS/2 user has nothing
to fear from any Microsoft virus. In all my years of
using OS/2 and the internet, and I spend considerable
time transferring and retrieving various business,
pleasure and odd files, I have never once had my
system affected. Nor have I ever known of any OS/2
user being infected by a Microsoft virus. It is the
Microsoft consumer who must pay through the nose to
protect their system while IBM has done a superb job
of protecting the OS/2 user through secure
programming.
Symantec AV for OS/2 is (or once was) IBM AV/2 until
IBM said "to hell with it. It is a product we don't
need because few OS/2 users are buying it and it costs
us more to maintain it." So they sold it to Symantec.
Believe it or not, it is very difficult for an OS/2
user to actually find an Anti-Virus program for OS/2
of value. Any vendor that sells such an item is
praying on those insecure OS/2 users who just have to
feel safe 'out there'. It's like putting a second set
of wheels on your car because God forbid one of them
should run over a nail while traveling down the
internet highway. :-) (Maybe not a good example but
you get my point.)
I kid you not, I've never purchased a Microsoft
application or product in my life. All day I've been
listening to various ShoutCast stations, downloading
MP3s, generating music CDs, collecting and sending out
email, printing videotape spine and front labels,
checking various websites, buying Christmas toys
online for my 5-year old boys, posting an item on eBay
for my neighbor (he has WinXP but just can't seem to
understand it well enough to find eBay must less sign
up and sell his own items) - well, I could go on but
the bottom line is, the only time I think about Virus
is when someone using a Microsoft system brings it up.
And I do it all on my T30 ThinkPad. Go figger.
PS: GIANTS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!
YEEEEEEAAAHHHH!
=====
Mike
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