This garbage really bugs me... people seem to have lost all sense of what is what these days

Is this valid information or advertisement?
Is intelligent design religion or science?
Is Fox News reporting or editorializing?

Don't trust anything that has money behind it... ever, ever, ever.

You want to read about computer security, stick to Military and academic papers. You'll find they are far more honest. The former because it needs to just work, the latter because tere is no motive beyond the good grade.

There are lots of people who don't really know much about computer security
Like the people who wrote the report, the person who wrote the article on the report, and now you who posted the article here.

I would love to teach basic computer security to people who know nothing about it and need some guidance
So you can act as Mary Kay-style representative for lame firewall, AV, and AS systems? How many Zone Alarm installations until you get your pink car?

This is verrrrry interesting. Funny how this comes out right about when AOL is hucking their new and improved security features in their software. Even more interesting, it aligns perfectly with all the commercials I see on TV.
A-****ing-men! Someone actually read who paid for this study and what else they are paying for.

Most (but not all) computer owners know that they need AV, but they thing that just by having AV that is enough. Updates/patches etc are another matter...'Too Technical'.
Do you know how to tell is a solution is bad? If it exists in a finite space, yet can become flawed without modification of this finite space.

Umm how about no firewall? Is that still properly configured? I guess that statement kind of answers part of my question from my other post. Some sort of firewall should be installed on a system.
*SLAP*

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