Running AV via SSH? (Was: Re: Bad Antivirus)

Alois Mahdal <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:21:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.basics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:50:26 -0500
Michael Peppard <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be honest I usually run (or tell someone to) the antivirus on an 
> infected machine through a remote connection such as ssh2, or as
> Windows network administrator. That takes care of several issues.

What does it take care of?  Isn't running av.exe via sshd the same?

Thanks,
aL.

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Alois Mahdal

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