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McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community
xbsd writes "Those computer industry specialists claiming that the end of Linux is fast approaching may be interested in two recent movements inside the industry. Two weeks ago, McAfee, one of the world leaders in computer security products, launched its first commercial antivirus solution for Linux, and just yesterday, Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool code-named Zorn based on the popular open-source IDE."
Does this mean McAfee is going to start releasing virii for linux too?
By the way, the most effective and affordable AV program of the Windows world, namely Grisoft's AVG, already runs on Linux. Prepare for competition, McAfee!
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
By Macromedia, you mean Adobe right? Super F/OSS friendly Adobe.
I love the fact that people went to all the trouble of getting Eclipse to compile with gcj and then didn't supply any binaries for use by the general public.
How we know is more important than what we know.
To scan for Windows viruses. You can use it on
samba file servers in a windows network, for example.
The world reverberated from the effects of viruses such as Nimda, CodeRed, and more recently, Slammer, Mydoom, Netsky, and Bagle.
well, the Windows world reverberated....
Microsoft bought a Rumanian company that produced border protection (protect MS clients by filtering on Linux hosts) and turned around to "cut off [McAfee's] air supply" with an MS client antivirus offering. Of course they shut down the Linux border filters.
In return, McAfee fills the vacuum by offering a Linux-hosted border filter.
Works for me.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
we had a virus that corrupted MSIE (mshtml.dll) Mcafee was instantly disabled, that 100mb install became useless all because Mcafee based their application dialogs on the MSIE component
we cancelled our contract with them soon after as we realised that if Mcafee dont understand security (they understand marketing though) so we will have to find someone who does understand security, and knows not to base the last line of defence on the biggest exploitable product on a windows system
ClamAV is looking good because of the costing though reliabilty and accurate is still a concern
-SJ
Fedora Core 4 has binaries for Eclipse in the "core" repository, as well as SRPMS.
/ SRPMS/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
McAfee started out as a shareware company, selling an antivirus program for MS-DOS and Macintosh.
They acquired a bunch of smaller companies, then started calling themselves "Network Associates" soon after they acquired that company.
While they haven't ever been open source, they've usually (always?) had a product you could download and use without first paying them for it. And I think they have always given out free updates.
I wonder how much of their corporate culture has survived from the old days? To what degree is "McAfee" just a brand name?
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Yes you really need virus protection on Linux. The situation is dire. There are thousands of viruses being brewed up around the world to infect Linux boxen. Be afraid, be very afraid!!
But now McAfee has come to your rescue. Only $49.95 for complete peace of mind.
I feel so much better already.
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Gee... I hope we get dinner, a good bottle of wine, and a movie before we get screwed.
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Put this in your root crontab:
0 0 * * * echo "You're runnng Linux, you don't have a virus."
Do you have ESP?