No anti-virus software? No Internet connection

Anti-virus software is not going to fix the problem when the users are the problem, mandating it will just annoy more advanced users who find anti-virus slow and unnecessary. Australia really needs to back off their internet regulation ideas, they're terrible.

Is it just me or has the Australian govt gone a bit nuts with respect to the Internet in the last year or so? Every other week it seems I see a new story like this.

Workarounds will be easy to find and the market for "antivirus shells", programs that <i>pretend</i> to be antiviruses, will actually help spread viruses.

there are already some universities in the states and canada that require its users to have anti-virus software installed before they can use the campus wireless network. i'm not sure how they handle mac users.

As far as I know I have never been infected and I've been running Windows without antivirus for the last five years.

So, if I have a toaster with internet connection I'll have to install an anti-virus on it? <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/" rel="nofollow">http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/</a>