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Brilliant!

This is a nice demonstration of just how unworkable the whole anti-virus nonsense has become. Anti-virus databases have grown to colossal sizes and are growing bigger by the moment and at an accelerated pace.

It's an unworkable model and I think their bleating about this competition highlights this fact - ie - they are running like mad-men just to stand still in their fight against the bugs!

Just how stupid does this situation of running huge databases of virus profiles and running anti-whatever software have to get before business and the public at large wake up to the fact that they are running a swiss-cheese of an OS (ie - MS Windows, because let's face it, no other OS gives two-hoots about viruses because by and large, they aren't susceptible to them)

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