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Story: Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims

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Posted by: David Alan Gregory (Wednesday 23 March 2005, 6:15 AM)

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The next time somebody who is in the business of selling security services walks this path ask them the following:

1 How many definitions in your AV software can actually exploit the current release of the Mac OS? Of these, how many are from third-party applications running on Mac OS X?
2 Same for Windows XP.
3 Same for LINUX.

I use various versions of Windows, UNIX and Mac OS in a networked and internet exposed environment daily in my job and have so for years. Every Windows XP Pro PC at work has quarantined stuff that the corporate edition of Symantec software let through and cannot remove. The Mac and LINUX computers are clean despite being exposed to the same network connections, servers and files.

Note that I said their Corporate Software for Windows is less than stellar on well maintained and patched equipment. I suggest Symantec stop spreading FUD and concentrate on fixing their Windows software. Everybody knows that XP needs all the help it can get.

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