[olug] Paying - to little - for security?

[Eric Lusk]

Of course, no matter how much you pay for security, if you start feeling secure, you may be in for a very big surprise.
The average home user may never be truly secure; how many people run multiple firewalls, multiple antivirus programs, and a list of anti-spyware programs?  I know quite a few PC techs who do all of those things, but that's a small part of the population.  Any more, PC repair shops make their money removing viruses, adware, and spyware.  Hardware failure and "normal" software problems are a very small part of the challenge today.
This translates into some people paying $500 for a new PC, then spending another $500 (quite often because they don't quite surfing the same sites over and over again) just to keep the thing running.  Now programs like this will cost you even more; pay the tech to remove the trojan that could cost you hundreds at the bank.
Ouch.
And moving en masse to Linux (or OSX) just gets people to port from .exe programs to .sh scripts.
You ever start to think all the warnings in the world about bad habits fall on deaf ears?  Oh well, more money for us....
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Travis Owens <openbook1441 at gmail.com>
To: Omaha LUG <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:27:34 PM
Subject: [olug] Paying - to little - for security?

Hey all,

Just saw this and figured to relay it. Worthy of discussion, since
their simple calculations are a bit scary if it were magnified by 100
people all trying the same thing at once...

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=212009,00.asp

Cheers,
-- 
Travis Owens
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