Lindows sells virus protection [LWN.net]

Lindows sells virus protection

Posted Feb 20, 2003 10:32 UTC (Thu) by pascal.martin (guest, #2995)
Parent article: Lindows sells virus protection

My experience with anti-virus is that you don't really buy a software: you buy a virus protection service.

Included in that service are the updates. These updates are essential: without them the anti-virus will do nothing to protect you against the next virus to show up on the net.

Therefore you buy a service that is to block the next viruses to come.

If Lindows is selling a virus detection and removal tool that works for its intended purpose, comes with no actual virus description (because there are none to be known) but include a, say, 1 year subscription for new virus updates, then they are really selling a insurance against new viruses.

Considering new viruses on Linux are technically feasible, this is a valid service.

No one cannot know if the service is worth it before one viruse strikes.

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Lindows sells virus protection

Posted Feb 20, 2003 14:29 UTC (Thu) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link]

But the virus writers will target Lindows - imaging a whole community of technical idiots running root on a Linux box!

So Lindows is selling the sickness and the cure.

It's kind of like the telemarketing SCAM the phone companies run. They sell you an unlisted number, then they turn around and sell the telemarketer your number at a premium, then they sell you a $50 box to block telemarketers, and sell the telemarketers a "special" way to get around the block boxes.

Get it?