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Originally Posted by percepts lets keep a sense of perspective here. Not implementing antivirus software is not recommended for everyone but only for those who are comfortable with the concept and understand how to protect themselves without the AV sofware. For those who are more susceptible to STD's (software transmitted deseases) should protect themselves using the recommended methods.
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I consider myself a well educated, and experienced IT professional. I am responsible for the protection and security for a number of businesses networks. I think my perspective is crystal clear, and for the sake of the unknown vulnerability or other attack vector it is worthwhile to have a certain amount of protection.
In my mind if you browse from a machine then it needs AV protection.
Vulnerabilities in vrml, images, java runtime, firefox, or more importantly the app that you do not know is compromised is the thing that AV software protects you against.
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There is no security silver bullet. No single solution can protect you from everything. The best anti-virus software is not enough to offer complete protection. The software-based firewall depends upon anti-malware software to help ensure that nothing bad can disable it. Hardware-based solutions have suffered breaches in the past. E-mail bypasses firewalls.
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and security requires several approaches.
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Speak to any security professional of note and they will say use AV software on the desktop.