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Story: Symantec: Vista is not a security solution

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Vista not a security app

Good point. Sometimes it's hard to listen to what is actually been said when you know it is coming from a non-objective source.

However, saying that I still think user awareness and training is needed rather than more resource hogging security apps. Do you know what antivirus software hackers and virus writers use? None. The ones that I have read about anyway. They just know not to download that email attachment called "I love you" or open websites promising free ipods or the latest copy of photoshop for nothing.

Don't get me wrong you still need firewall protection etc. but In the last year since I have my hardware firewall build into my router I have had 0 intrution attempts and 0 viruses detected by my copy of Norton. How necessary is it? Not very but I keep it out of fear.

I think having these apps makes people lazy and they don't bother to become net savvy enough to avoid viruses and spyware in the first place. That is why Phising was so successful to begin with because anti-virus couldn't protect people from it and not being net savvy or having common sense users readily entered their bank login or even credit card details into fake websites making it easy for the criminals.

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