Comment Re:why... (Score 1) 294
Anti-virus software isn't by any means "security protection", especially the type that works on a heuristical basis. They are simply long lists of known to be disadvantageous programs and a daemon that tries to match the list to data on the system.
Sure, they might offer some kind of help for systems operated by people who do not have the necessary knowledge to operate a computer, but it is first and foremost it is built for security and it does good by providing known signatures or data of viruses and its pattent. This would somewhat decrease the risk level to 50% because for the first time you might be attacked but for the 2nd, 3rd time onwards maybe not anymore.
There are two solutions to the problem by the way. The former is educate the users and the latter is to switch to linux. No, seriously. The important part isn't linux, but switching away from a monoculture preferably to a desktop environment that is ruled by at least 3-4 systems that are different from each other and they are interoperating in well defined ways with each other. That way, you can get the platform (the systems it can possibly infect) down for a virus to a threshold where the percentage is simply too low for it to be able to spread.
Sure, they might offer some kind of help for systems operated by people who do not have the necessary knowledge to operate a computer, but it is first and foremost it is built for security and it does good by providing known signatures or data of viruses and its pattent. This would somewhat decrease the risk level to 50% because for the first time you might be attacked but for the 2nd, 3rd time onwards maybe not anymore.
There are two solutions to the problem by the way. The former is educate the users and the latter is to switch to linux. No, seriously. The important part isn't linux, but switching away from a monoculture preferably to a desktop environment that is ruled by at least 3-4 systems that are different from each other and they are interoperating in well defined ways with each other. That way, you can get the platform (the systems it can possibly infect) down for a virus to a threshold where the percentage is simply too low for it to be able to spread.
