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The Insecurity of Security Software

Posted by Zonk on from the save-me-from-myself dept.

H316 writes "BusinessWeek is reporting that, despite a number of software products meant to safeguard Windows PCs from harm, a rising number of them endanger their hosts because of poor design and flaws. From the article: 'A new Yankee Group report, to be released June 20, shows the number of vulnerabilities found in security products increasing sharply for the third straight year -- and for the first time surpassing those found in all Microsoft products.'"

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  1. Hmm... by deutschemonte · · Score: 0, Troll

    This after news that Microsoft will be entering the "security" market.

    Coincidence? I think not. They were just waiting for the bar to be lowered enough so their crappy product would be marginally crappy compared to the current offerings.

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  2. Hmmm... by JeiFuRi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe this is why Microsoft is starting to get into the security buisness :P

  3. Re:Chocolate Sprinkles by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll


    Ah, the Windows trolls have moderator points again!

    "Insightful"?

    After SEVERAL studies have shown OSS software to be higher code quality than most commercial software?

    I don't think so.

    Also, the only "worthy" software running on Windows seems to be the hundred thousand viruses and worms, against the ten or twenty such running on Linux. There probably are as many viruses running on Windows as there is commercial software.

    Fuck off, troll.

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  4. Re:Insecure by cillasri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just three words: Switch to Mac.