Full Disclosure: Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

[Shaqe Wan <sha8e () yahoo com>]

Yep, your right. The auditors nowadays even ask for an AV on a *n?x OS (what a shame) !!!



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From: Digital X <digitalx00 () gmail com>
To: Tracy Reed <treed () ultraviolet org>; Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Cc: Full-disclosure <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Sent: Mon, April 26, 2010 3:48:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds


> 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.
>
> -- 
> Tracy Reed
> http://tracyreed.org
Just an FYI...if your nix devices are in scope, my last audit (4 weeks ago)
directed me to install A/V plus a rootkit finder on linux devices in scope.
Whitelisting is an alternative, but seems more a headache then A/V.  Hope
this helps someone somewhere.

James


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