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Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools



	Hi.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 05:13:35PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:35:18 +0300
> Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 04:32:42PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> >
> > > 
> > > I thought he was saying the surest approach is not touching Windows
> > > with a ten foot pole,  
> > 
> > You're aiming too low. Not touching any non-free OS with a ten foot
> > pole would be much more like it.
> > 
> > 
> While bearing in mind that 'free' doesn't mean 'problem-free'. 
> 
> Remember how many people audited the Heartbleed code before it was
> released?

And that's why security is a process, not a state.
CVE-2014-0160 was fixed upstream days after the discovery, but it took
certain software vendors almost a year to fix openssl 'bundled' with
their 'software products'.

Reco


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