[ale] [OT] good FREE windisease anti-virus software (Thanx!)

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 00:19:36 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 23:49, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Just because free software has the source code available to read does not
> mean that it has been read.  I am willing to wager that there is not one
> single person on this mailing list that has audited every single line of
> code that is running on their system.  Or, for that matter, every single
> line of core system code that runs either at ring 0 or with UID 0 privilege,
> which while smaller, is still a very large amount of code to audit through.
> Trust requires knowledge.

True.  But, if you follow the developers of the code you use, then
Trust is what you can trust.
I do.

-Jim P.



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