On 10 Oct 2006 at 9:58, Marc Sims wrote: > A scientist of what? It doen't mention what type of scientist below his > photo on the left corner of the page. With this I have to be very > skeptical about his creditials and if he REALLY is a chief scientist at > that.
I agree, that's potentially an issue, as we don't know his credentials. > What does a chief scientist do? I don't know and niether would anyone > who's read the article. IMHO I just can't go by at whats been said face > at value that just becuase a person who's or claims to be a chief > scientist says that Microsoft is wrong on security when a lot of holes > have been punched in this article. Remmember this just becuase its on What holes, the issue of CrashGuard blocking current antivirus is a fact, and just so happens it gives MS tighter control over the os and the ability to sell their own "security" product or ship it with the os, how convenient. > the net and written by a person who maybe what he isn't, maybe and > isn't actually true. It's fine to make those claims, but did you make any effort to answer that question? > I'll just chalk this article up as a vailed attempt to push and sell McAfee > products to meet its bottom line. > In Fact he sounded more like a Marketing exec than a chief scientist to me > and who know maybe he is. > Nice try McAfee but I'm not sold one bit. Uhm, where in the article did he push Mcafee software? Of course with the fact that he works for McAfee, obviously they have a vested interest in selling their security products, however not even once did he say, directly or veiled "buy McAfee software". He basically said MS Sucks and implied all the poor little Antivirus vendors are being shut out to the detriment of the computer using public, that's a pretty standard marketing tactic to rally the "masses" to do your lobbying work for you. If McAfee was the only company crying foul, I might believe that was the case. As Bernie pointed out, there are consequences to running security software, both good and bad, and there are consequences to a security model that only has one layer, particularly when you run with elevated rights. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
