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1. Comment - MS to McAfee: Stop Lying to the Public

   (Oct 22, 2006 - 11:30 AM)

   So you are saying the black hats who are funded by mom and newspaper routes are smarter and more resourceful than AV companies with billions available for R&D? I would think if anyone would figure out how to crack the OS, the security companies _should_ be ahead of the black hats. If not? Why would someone pay the security companies to protect them? They obviously don't understand what they are trying to protect you against.
   
   The issue is that McAffee and Symantec don't want to "lose" previous code capability that they picked up from others smarter than them because it translates to less features in their product and less reason to shell out cash for it. It also means for them to attempt to maintain functionality _they_ need to come up with something new and I think MSFT is far more advanced in new developments than those other two companies ever could be even though MSFT gets ripped pretty regularly for that.
   
   I am very much for MSFT doing this. Even if they have to have different SKUs, one SKU has the feature, one doesn't. Alternately all have it but it is something you can enable/disable but that can only be done by inserting a separate boot CD making changes that require the user to enter specific set of fairly painful commands and then reboot. That way, people are well aware that they are doing it and have to be involved, some piece of software can't just do it for them behind the scenes.