agreed that joke of a security company along with norton are absolutely useless unless you want to trash your winblows crap box. On Dec 28, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Scott Granados wrote:
> This is BS. > > > Macafee has about as much clue and product quality as the burnouts they hire > in radio shack. > > > Apple has a Unix underpinning which means if set up correctly virus code > won't propegate. Windows is much easier because permissions aren't handled > correctly among other massive security holes. Apple uses BSD under the hood > which doesn't have these issues from the ground up. Sure there could be > holes but there will be no where near as many as there are in Microsoft > products. Start at the kernel and work your way back.:) > > More important though, mind your info sources. Macafee really is the > laughing stock of the information security world. > > Remember Intel bought them for a very small bit of code they can add to their > chips. The rest will probably be spun off to suckers or shut down. > > If you're really interested in security products and good opinion check out > Sourcefire, Juniper Networks or on the software side check out Metasploit. > > > > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> Please have a look at this article : >> >> http://www.macworld.com/article/156738/2010/12/apple_bigger_security_target_in_2011.html?lsrc=rss_main >> >> >> This is just to put it into people's minds that there is an end to >> everything, but better early than too late >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
