BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> AVID: A Trend In Motion; Firefox Rocks; IT Without Gates
>>
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>> | I was asked last week why I keep changing the D-word in AVID e.g.
>> | Antivirus Is Dead, Doomed, Dying and Dysfunctional. To be honest,
>> | it's a cheap and obscure trick; here's a tortuous explanation.
>> |
>> | I am running a campaign to bring down the $3.7 billion AV industry...
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=13337
> Thats a little unfair I thought. The likes of Norton and McAfee were
> essential at one time for the MS and there fore the business world, as well
> as home users.
> But it wasn't totally unfair either.
Indeed...
Another perspective could be seen as the anti-virus sector being parasites
draining money from the IT industry performing a task that shouldn't even be
neccesary.
If people hadn't come up with antivirus programs, microsoft would have been
FORCED to fix their software. They wouldn't've had any choice as the entire
system would've come down in flames 10 years ago if they hadn't.
Which would've bankrupted them. Hmmmm... Seems the anti-virus bods have done
more damage than first thought, eh?
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