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Story: Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims
Posted by: David Alan Gregory (Wednesday 23 March 2005, 6:15 AM)
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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Story: Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims
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This is inline with ISS reporting a vulnerability... Anonymous -
I just tested my Mac with Symantec's own onli... Wilfred Hildonen -
We have had a very involved and expensive security... Anonymous
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When liars try to cover their asses they write art... Anonymous
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And the Mac whiners come out of the wood work... Peter
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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!
By my Super Hard Hats at a... pHHHHHHtowindozs
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"People should not be scared, but they should make... Anonymous
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What I really would like to know from Symatec is,... Anonymous
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Since the Mac installed base is significantly... Anonymous
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I think that Symantec is correct. The user base fo... Jay Weiss
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Symatec have also stated that due to the incr... Anonymous
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No OS is 100% secure!
Obviously with a Window... Matty C.
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There has been linkage (in the security industry)... B. Smith
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All these sayings about the fact that MacOSX has n... Anonymous
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The next time somebody who is in the business... David Alan Gregory -
As the Mac becomes more popular it will become a t... Anonymous
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well it´s quite obvious that the threats to the OS... Juan Eduardo De Magalhaes-Calvet
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I use both Windows and Mac OS X, Mac OS X being my... Bob Kerstetter
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These people must serously be retarded. It would t... bob
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