Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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August 2007

Virus scanners, or An Overly Concerned Engineer

A paraphased portion of the conversation between myself and an engineer about his new laptop;

me: There isn't one at the moment. In the next few weeks we are migrating from one vendor to another. As it's kind of a pain to uninstall the current one, I was trying to save myself some time and effort. Plus, we are out of licenses for our current product.

engineer: I just won't use this for email until I get a virus scanner. It's really important.