Re: almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Thurman
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

Re: almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Scott Granados
I absolutely agree. My thought is exploits will happen via services that people enable with out the appropriate clue just like you see in the Unix world today. Someone with an improperly patched httpd or BIND, that sort of thing. Nice to see someone with common interests. I feel like I need b

Re: almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Yuma Decaux
Yep, i completely agree with all your points, but... All the arguments you pointed out are the ones i myself point out when discussing security with PC owners. The unix base, BSD, posix permissions which are better laid out than windows ACLs, the fact that windows was not initially made for int

Re: almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Scott Granados
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

almost happy new year and some advice

2010-12-28 Thread Yuma Decaux
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