From: Tracy Reed (treedultraviolet.org)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2010 - 22:25:47 CDT

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:57:18AM +1200, Nick FitzGerald spake thusly:
> Anyone authoritatively stating that antivirus software is a necessary
> component of a "reasonably secure" system is a fool.

No, they just think all the world is Windows.

> So _if_, as you and another recent poster strongly imply, the PCI
> standards include a specific _requirement_ for antivirus software, then
> the standards themselves are total nonsense...

PCI only requires antivirus for systems commonly affected by
viruses. This means Windows. PCI security council has said that UN*X
OSs etc. are not required to have antivirus.

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Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org

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