Re: Peeved with Ubuntu
Originally Posted by
OldGreyFox
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Fair play Bruce, but three people out of how many using computers? I'd call that good odds. You have more chance winning the lottery, and that will be never
Thats an absurd comparison. Its not three people out of how many people use computers it's three people known to this one person who use computers and who don't use anti virus. Much shorter odds.
a thought: If someone gets an infected e-mail from someone who has no virus protection then surely, their virus blocker should stop it?
My bank screen all contacts with the best firewall money can buy.
I think they would be a bit peeved if I kept infecting them. So there's your virus checker right there.
Julie has answered the first part of your question.
Firewalls do not stop viruses they stop things/people from outside accessing your computer remotely, they also allow some things in ie web pages that pass a number of criteria. BUT they are not designed to stop viruses but a virus can be designed to defeat firewalls from the inside. Firewalls generally speaking do not stop things inside getting out. (That is not entirely true but close enough)
Your bank will not know nor care if you have a virus their firewall will allow only specific data from you to pass in. That is the point of it, you are not sending them an email you are asking or telling a bank a very limited range of data their firewall will only allow requests it recognises in. Everything else is blocked.