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Mac Users Blast Symantec ... Again
An anonymous reader writes "Once again Symantec has spouted FUD about Mac OS X ... perhaps in an attempt to make more money as Microsoft pushes its own security products? A commentary on the issue entitled "Symantec 'scare tactics' don't rattle Mac users" says Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report continues to voice concern for the security and stability of the Mac operating system, Mac OS X in particular. However, there isn't proper evidence to back this claim. Also from the story, readers are asked: Do Mac users think they are immune to security problems or is Symantec and others fishing for a new revenue stream? Do you think Apple should start following Microsoft's model by rating vulnerabilities and patches?"
This is, of course, possible - just find some stupid people. The problem is that a virus scanner won't do anything to protect you against this kind of thing.
Maybe Semantec should start selling stupid people scanners. Unfortunately, the scanners would go nuts in their own PR department.
except amongst the uptime-is-a-measure-of-masculinity crowd
Jeez, you don’t have to look directly at me when you say that, do you?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
So you're saying it might not be a good buy? Please, tell me what you really think.
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
This is sort of the command line equivalent of photoshopping, isn't it?
;)
[slartibartfast@magrathea:~] $ uptime
9:47 up 5 eons, 41 epochs, 3 users, load averages: 0.00 0.00 0.00
I can put anything in here. Ha!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Does anyone else believe there are only so many "real" viruses out there? The rest are engineered by the virus scan companies?
For example you install Symantec norton antivirus. It detects something as a virus. Let's say you DON'T clean or quarantine it, and just install norton.
Now install McAfee antivirus. It may not even detect that same virus at all. Assuming both scanners are all updated, how can a virus count in one software and not the other.
So.. the smallest unit of time to measure uptime is User life spans....
Who'd you have to kill to get that machine?
Lycestra
More to the point, when you run "kill" on that machine, who dies?
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