[TriLUG] OT: Windows Anti-Virus

[Mike Viscount via TriLUG]

>> is a giant vacuum sucking up everything it can

Google ... and everyone else who can ....

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:22 PM Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I actually saw them on one of the top 10 the lists when I did some
> Googling on the matter.  They jumped out at me because they weren't one
> of the "usual suspects" that I mentioned in the initial post.
>
> I assume by govt malware, you mean programs that make it easier to hack
> into your machines and spy on you? Or did you mean something else?
>  While my initial reaction would be to say, why would they ever care to
> spy on me or my wife's business(*), it doesn't take a tin foil hat to
> see that the surveillance apparatus in this country is out of control
> and is a giant vacuum sucking up everything it can because it is a
> paranoid beast. I've also read that the US govt has special love for
> Kaspersky that comes from the crack of it's backside.
>
> I actually seem some value in the the fact that Kaspersky is a non US
> company and I don't think the Russians would have any interest in her
> or me.  Well, OK, I know that some of my wife's pottery (her business)
> is in Russia so maybe that's not completely true; some tourists bought
> some soap dishes and other items from her.
>
> * - Several years ago, my wife had a tie dye clothing business and she
> started getting massive amounts of SPAM of Chinese origin.  I read
> somewhere that they were intentionally doing this to any business that
> they thought was a threat to their economic interests.  It was a real
> pain to find ways to filter and reject it that mostly identified their
> character sets and ultimately lead me to purchasing a subscription to
> one of the more cutting edge RBLs.
>
> On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 18:05 +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > there is the age old issue of Anti-Virus protection.
> > I use and recommend Kaspersky. It's the only thing that picks up govt
> > installed
> > malware.
> >
> > Joe
> >
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