I inadvertently sent an email to these lists a bit ago from my work email account rather than my home one. My apologies to all who were confused by the new email address. I was writing in a personal capacity, not a professional one.
Since some of these lists reject and/or hold-for-moderation posts from unknown addresses, I'm reposting the message here: ===== A few weeks ago I posted a link to a report from Kyrus which called into question the effectiveness of virtually all antivirus products. SANS has done their own analysis, starting from a completely different methodology, and has reached much the same results. The takeaway for GnuPG users is this: * Keeping your system malware-free is of paramount importance. Once someone else controls your PC, it's all over. * AV is of very limited utility. Nobody is saying not to use it, nor that it's of no use at all. However, at present the evidence suggests none of us should consider our machines safe just because we have AV installed and keep it up to date. http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2012/04/09/is-anti-virus-really-dead-a-real-world-simulation-created-for-forensic-data-yields-surprising-results _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users