Chicken and Egg

[Nick Arnett]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net>
wrote:

> Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM:
>


> /anti-malware program and install it.  Make sure it
> is running.


Actually, you want the LEAST popular, reliable anti-malware software you can
get.   Serious malware authors test their evil tools against the popular
ones, so they tend to provide the poorest protection.

While we're on the subject, AVG's LinkScanner has created a lot of misery
for me and other people who do web analytics.  I've pretty well decided
never to use their products again.

See
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148004/avg_fixes_antivirus_software_skewing_web_site_statistics.html

Nick