2009/9/17 Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> > I think you're being (at best) misguided in trusting your software so > much. I could write lots of ranty text to support my view, but I'll > settle, for now, for Two Words (all right, three): "Zero-day exploit" > [1]. > > As a more general comment, see [2]. > > Udhay > > [1] http://netsecurity.about.com/od/newsandeditorial1/a/aazeroday.htm > [2] http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority.html >
Yes, but if I can't trust my anti-virus software, and not my OS, and my job is designing web applications, I don't have much choice do I? To be able to do my job effectively means I have to explore features of as many new websites as possible which I can't do unless I register and have atleast a few friends/referrals on it. Trust has to start somewhere, and I choose to believe that my OS with regular patches and my anti-virus software which keeps downloading updated virus (and other threat) definitions every 30 minutes will protect me. This belief is not very much unlike the one which allows anybody to maintain sanity in today's world. If you only travel by your own car anywhere for fear of terrorists, or don't go to public places for fear of the swine flu etc. etc. Kiran
