Security solutions for everything. They put it on machines until they clot.
Security vendors mainly sell products, no security for platforms that were not devised with security at heart. AV vendors and malcreants waltz in a strange embrace. They do not give you a bonus anymore for a virus or trojan you find in the wild, but they still sell a lot of snake oil. You must educate yourselves and find your way in security land. Avast is a beacon, but what about the rest?
Read: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,86907,00.html
Article is from NOVEMBER 10, 2003 !!! When it comes to computers that is prehistoric news.
It is very nice of you trying to inform us with all kinds of information, but please provide real news or very recent information. Like the things in the ‘computer related news’ thread in the (now closed) off-topic form
This may be pre-historic news, but then the worse thing about this it is still very much the truth. If we hear with the plans for an inbuilt Microsoft security product for their new platform for which they already got a consortium of 30 anti-malware firms aboard, that they are just following on the same path security wise, and see no other option then making their closed software even more so, the writer of the article could have written this as well for to-day.
Also the news that Symantec is backing down from his informal anti-trust complaints at the EU, is also a sign on the wall for many. The switch to pre-installed oem Linux boxes in S.E. Asia is also indicating that the news is still actual.
It is not that things are novelties and trivialities, it is about things that were wrong then and are still very much wrong now. There are 4 year old holes and vulnerabilities, that are still open. And there are a lot of holes that closed software makers silently hope about that they will never be found Critizising is always the easy way out. Commenting on the still very actual message is another thing. Or have the snake oil seller closed up shop??? There would not be all that scumware around, just now!
I found the article a very interesting read this is the first time i read it and i probably wouldn’t have found it if Polonus haven’t posted it in the first place, i wasn’t around on the net to read articles back in 2003 cause i was still on dial up(you know the beep,beep and beep modem thingie ;D ) and i was only using net to get updates for my programs…
