During the week 1 lecture Professor Mackey made the comment that and I am hoping I am quoting correct, “I do not run antivirus on any of my computers at home”. I am not a fan of antivirus or encryption software because it takes system resources away from the user experience however, this statement caught my attention. No matter what the operating system may be, it can still catch a virus. Granted that the virus has to be tailored to the OS that the user is using which will greatly reduce by the OS that you are using, Microsoft vs. Ubuntu as an example. I have always felt that antivirus is a necessary evil for a system to exist and it’s an insurance policy that catch a certain percentage of viruses and will stop known virus signatures. What I found interesting was that the industry standard is saying that traditional antivirus is dead however it’s still remains useful to a security approach. I would agree from a business and consumer of computer products perspective having antivirus will save hours of headaches. I like Professor Mackey’s home setup where running everything in a VM is a safer approach so not using an antivirus a bonus and we are starting to build this environment for this and other classes. The computer industry has been trending in that direction where we will have dumb terminals to access the internet, maybe I should redesign my home network?<\/p>\n
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http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2014\/05\/antivirus-is-dead-long-live-antivirus\/<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/2919111\/security\/traditional-anti-virus-is-dead-long-live-the-new-and-improved-av.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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