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On 2006-06-21, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:09 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> AVID: A Trend In Motion; Firefox Rocks; IT Without Gates
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | I was asked last week why I keep changing the D-word in AVID e.g.
>>> | Antivirus Is Dead, Doomed, Dying and Dysfunctional. To be honest,
>>> | it's a cheap and obscure trick; here's a tortuous explanation.
>>> |
>>> | I am running a campaign to bring down the $3.7 billion AV industry...
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13337
>>
>> Thats a little unfair I thought. The likes of Norton and McAfee were
>> essential at one time for the MS and there fore the business world, as well
>> as home users.
>
>
> Microsoft created an opportunity for an industry to emerge, but the
> programmers could have earned a living doing something that would further
> advance society rather than fix or compensate for some other vendor's bugs.
> From a scientic point-of-view (rather than industrial), this is sad.
>
>
>> But it wasn't totally unfair either.
>>
>> There are free or much cheaper products available now, those weren't there
>> when MS were first hit with wave after wave of virus's. But they have
>> learnt from the mistakes of the big names in MS protection.
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> Symatec is currently working with IBM on Linux storage and backup systems.
> This has been cropping up in the news for over a week. This relates to your
> reference to Ghost (below).
>
>
>> I know this is seperate but that Ghost and a machine recovery thing came
>> with the suite, they are the biggest pile of crap of the lot, slowing down
>> the whole system for very long periods. But they haven't given you a way to
>> get rid of them without getting rid of all of the suite. I have tried to
>> recover using that recovery program before and found that it couldn't read
>> it's own files so I know it isn't actually doing anything usefull. Ghost
>> I'll admit could be usefull, but not as a live mirror creation thing, it is
>> far too heavy handed for that. Instead ghost should be a tool, not a
>> service.
>
>
> There are several tools for Linux that achieve the same things as Ghost. They
> are free, too. And why discuss recovery in the first place? The mind boggles
> as Linux machines can sustain long uptime and never be formatted (with the
> exception of hardware issue, e.g. bad sectors).
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> I am left with a bad taste when I hear about Symantec. Some customers who
> sought my help had lost network functionality and were absolutely clueless
> for weeks. Symantec's software was the culprit. Norton too. This O/S bloat
> and layers of protection make it fragile, and prone to confuse users )apart
> from ripping them off).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
Norton was (is?) very poor software. Their firewall was incompatible
with some software suites, including Mcaffee antivirus (old news, could
have been corrected), and such sweets as OS data corruption could be
eagerly anticipated from unfortunate software combinations.
I honestly feel sad for people still using Windows. I have always said
that people should use what they are comfortable with and works for them.
I have also maintained that Linux dosen't have to be high profile or
popular with the masses. Just available to all who want it. I maintain these
opinions. But I can't help but feel privileged to be using such a worry free
and secure system as Linux. It just is such a great feeling to go anywhere on
the net, leave my system up and connected to DSL 24/7, Etc. and basically do
any activity free of the software version of a condom. It's also kind of
fun to visualize all the frustrated malicious code hitting my computer and
getting a bloody nose.
Regards,
Mathew
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