Story: The Apple of Symantec's eye

Posted by: doug Petrosky (Thursday 29 September 2005, 8:13 PM)

Lets see if I can make this clear. I live in San Diego and we have never had a hurricane. But we live on the coast and water temps are changing so lets assume that a hurricane is at least theoretically possible (maybe it is?). Do you think it is prudent for me to purchase storm shutters, backup generators etc to be ready? This is what Symantic is asking us to do.

Now, on the other hand, is it worthwhile for me to have a weeks worth of food and water for my family just in case any disaster happens? Hell yes. This is sort of like allowing your system to download regular patches from Apple (say weekly as a minimum).

Also this doesn't mean that if the weather agency says a hurricane has formed and will make land in one day that I would ignore it. Just like hurricanes, Viruses take time to affect most people and I would be quick to board up the windows (immediately load any patches) and get out of town (purchase virus software).

Today the ranting of Symantic is them saying that it is possible for the storm to hit and I and my fellow mac users are waiting for them to say that the storm has formed and is coming to land. Until then, any efforts in this direction are probably a waste of time.