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From: Leythos on 20 Mar 2010 18:25 In article <4OqdnTkd0uHPvTjWnZ2dnUVZ8kmdnZ2d(a)bt.com>, BoaterDave(a)hot.mail.co.uk says... > what anti-malware software does > your *family* use on their computers in your *home*? All of my computers as well as family and friends, and even clients, have started moving to Avira from Symantec End Point Protection products. You already know this BD, stop trolling. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: "FromTheRafters" erratic on 20 Mar 2010 19:05 "~BD~" <BoaterDave(a)hot.mail.co.uk> wrote in message news:YaydnRoE2Mes1TjWnZ2dnUVZ7v6dnZ2d(a)bt.com... > If you were going to chose separate protection elements for use > against today's threats, FTR - which would *you* recommend as likely > to provide better protection than MSE? I don't know. I haven't tried MSE. MSE certainly seems to have potential (considering the Microsoft userbase communication aspect), but you can bet it will soon become the most targeted by anti-antimalware malware. Just as IE suffered through the security experts mantra of "alternative browser" largely because of it being targeted, MSE may be similarly afflicted.
From: Leythos on 20 Mar 2010 19:22 In article <uG97hHIyKHA.5132(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, erratic @nomail.afraid.org says... > > "~BD~" <BoaterDave(a)hot.mail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:YaydnRoE2Mes1TjWnZ2dnUVZ7v6dnZ2d(a)bt.com... > > > If you were going to chose separate protection elements for use > > against today's threats, FTR - which would *you* recommend as likely > > to provide better protection than MSE? > > I don't know. I haven't tried MSE. MSE certainly seems to have potential > (considering the Microsoft userbase communication aspect), but you can > bet it will soon become the most targeted by anti-antimalware malware. > Just as IE suffered through the security experts mantra of "alternative > browser" largely because of it being targeted, MSE may be similarly > afflicted. > The important question is: Why would you trust Microsoft to protect the computer from malware when they can't even secure ANY OS platform USED BY NORMAL PEOPLE? -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: David H. Lipman on 20 Mar 2010 19:33 From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> | "~BD~" <BoaterDave(a)hot.mail.co.uk> wrote in message | news:YaydnRoE2Mes1TjWnZ2dnUVZ7v6dnZ2d(a)bt.com... >> If you were going to chose separate protection elements for use >> against today's threats, FTR - which would *you* recommend as likely >> to provide better protection than MSE? | I don't know. I haven't tried MSE. MSE certainly seems to have potential | (considering the Microsoft userbase communication aspect), but you can | bet it will soon become the most targeted by anti-antimalware malware. | Just as IE suffered through the security experts mantra of "alternative | browser" largely because of it being targeted, MSE may be similarly | afflicted. You'd be surprised at all the malware I see specifically targeting Kaspersky and Avira. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: "FromTheRafters" erratic on 20 Mar 2010 20:00
"Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.260f22b2424f213e98a1e1(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <uG97hHIyKHA.5132(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, erratic > @nomail.afraid.org says... >> >> "~BD~" <BoaterDave(a)hot.mail.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:YaydnRoE2Mes1TjWnZ2dnUVZ7v6dnZ2d(a)bt.com... >> >> > If you were going to chose separate protection elements for use >> > against today's threats, FTR - which would *you* recommend as >> > likely >> > to provide better protection than MSE? >> >> I don't know. I haven't tried MSE. MSE certainly seems to have >> potential >> (considering the Microsoft userbase communication aspect), but you >> can >> bet it will soon become the most targeted by anti-antimalware >> malware. >> Just as IE suffered through the security experts mantra of >> "alternative >> browser" largely because of it being targeted, MSE may be similarly >> afflicted. >> > > The important question is: Why would you trust Microsoft to protect > the > computer from malware when they can't even secure ANY OS platform USED > BY NORMAL PEOPLE? Microsoft is perfectly capable of purchasing the necessary technology to have themselves a bite of the antimalware pie. You don't really think that they build this stuff from the ground up all by themselves do you? Yes, I know, given enough time they will probably screw things up. I think they have a chance to compete because more and more it is coming down to the ability to react to a new threat quickly (early warning, and speedy distribution of the necessary definitions files) being the crucial metric. They may be in a good place to get information on an outbreak, maybe quicker than other honeypot operations, because of their "Joe user" userbase already being accustomed to the umbilical cord paradigm (MSE has encountered an error (blah blah blah) - send report to Microsoft). |