On development of security applications.

Over at assa's blog an interresting post appeared... I'm not going to comment on the whole thing just to say that he is righteous. I will comment on a small passage on the business case of the anti - virus/spyware/hacker software companies.

"How about education of PC users? That is something mostly neglected by anti- vendors, just because educated users making educated decisions could possibly harm their business." - Assarbad

This quote shows the short-sightedness of the whole anti- industry. Education of users to have good habits when using internet services like mail or the web would improve the experience for everyone. Because some of the spam you receive daily in your inbox is from someones computer who clicked on a link that he/she shouldn't have clicked on. The solution is not relying on out dated definition files of your particular security software. I hope that you run some security software but, it is the last line of defense, first and foremost you must have good habits. What those good habits are... Maybe I'll run a series on that later...