From: Lee Laniear (laniear_at_attglobal.net)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 00:14:58 EDT
Mike,
Even if it were true that a "Micro$oft" virus couldn't affect an OS/2 system there are, as you know, other
viruses (viri) in existence. The instances of OS/2 systems being affected by a viruses is rare but it happens. I
know of two people who have had that happen.
I don't keep an extra set of tires on my car but I DO keep one extra tire in my trunk; in case I run over a nail. I
even carry "jumper cables" in my car even though I haven't had a dead battery in any car I've owned in
fourteen years. I have a disk drive in one of my servers that has worked everyday for the last 13 years (it will
be put out to pasture on Thursday) but I still take a backup of it and all my other systems every week. I
would feel pretty stupid if I lost all my data (some going back twelve years) because I decided not to protect
against a low probability event.
Good to hear that the Giants made it, I will enjoy watching the Angels (with the help of the "rallye Monkey")
kick their butts.
Lee
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:21:29 -0700 (PDT), Mike Ryan wrote:
>
>--- 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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