Originally Posted by
raistlin
False. Witness the aurora incident:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blog...-0-day-exploit
Those were all up-to-date pcs, running corporate antiviruses, behind a firewall and NAT.
Some of those were on state-of-the-art corporate networks (e.g., Google).
You are working under severely misguided assumptions. In today's corporate world, zero-day drive-by downloads are common and scary.
This is what I study for a living ;-)
I have a good technical knowledge of the subject, believe me
We could debate this all day, but the fact is that for the type of event you mention above, you have virtually the same issue regardless of what security software you are running (or not). And further to that - the risk is kept small by applying general common sense with regards to what links are clicked on, what websites are visited, etc.
On that basis, how are my assumptions misguided?