Panic messages about Viruses

[Nick]

OK - I accept the confidentiality argument - I've been a board member of several companies so I understand exactly where you are coming from.

So - how do you protect your domestic computing? I assume that is not confidential ;-)

It's not confidential, except that I use the same end-point solution that I do at work... As mentioned, do a bit of Googling and you'll see what's there.

In a year or so, I suspect the normal domestic stuff will be a lot lot better. Not only that, the hardware and operating systems will be too.

Actually, there's an error on the GRC page (unlike him) - the site states "Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern", however as a PRNG is used, by definition whilst the result may be very random, it's NOT "completely random", hence the "without any pattern" bit is also not strictly true as it's deterministic. It's good enough, for sure. These sorts of distinctions are important in security. Also the "maximum entropy" bit needs qualification - that should really be "maximum entropy for the choices available". As only the HEX string uses all 8 bits (2 characters at a time, i.e. 32 bytes of 8 bits), that's the only one with "maximum entropy" - all the others are compromises.

Harumph!