[ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:44 -0400, krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> I work in information security and some of the tools I have are
> considered malware. Here are a few examples: several of the Foundstone
> utilites, the Windows password changer which I use to get back into
> systems where they have lost the password, my ICAR test file, and of
> course actual malware.
> 
> I have also had instances where an anti-virus update comes out and
> they delete utilities that they had no problem with for years and then
> when the next update comes out they ignore them again. I chalk this up
> to random false positives. E-Policy Orchestrator (EPO) is the most
> aggressive offender so far. The first time I installed it resulted in
> dozens of deleted utilities. 

Wouldn't it be best to keep such utilities on a read-only media, then,
like a closed, single-session CD-R?

	--- Mike