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Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Tue Feb 12 17:13:07 2008

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- -- "Andre Gironda" <[email protected]> wrote:

[lots of good stuff elided]

>It's our fault for not pushing AV on your customers, and it's the AV's
>fault for not providing audit data to us, and it's the software
>vendors' fault for causing us to have to recommend AV and for AV to
>exist.  The liability should land on the software vendors.

AV is simply a tool, not a panacea.

In fact, what to do about the hundreds of thousands of compromised
websites/servers that help facilitate this crime?

What about the thousands of malicious rogue DNS servers?

There's enough problem-spaces to point fingers all around...

$.02,

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
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