MS abandons OneCare
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Apologies if repost. Microsoft discontinues Windows Live OneCare – offers lightweight alternative for free[^] However, might MS be prevented from doing this? I'm sure they really wanted to offer OneCare for free.
Kevin
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Apologies if repost. Microsoft discontinues Windows Live OneCare – offers lightweight alternative for free[^] However, might MS be prevented from doing this? I'm sure they really wanted to offer OneCare for free.
Kevin
I don't know of one person who trusted MS to protect their system. How can the company that made the systems so insecure that they needed protection be the ones to deal with the problem?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
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I don't know of one person who trusted MS to protect their system. How can the company that made the systems so insecure that they needed protection be the ones to deal with the problem?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Baconbutty wrote:
How can the company that made the systems so insecure that they needed protection be the ones to deal with the problem?
I think it is a bit more complicated than that. Microsoft should be the most aware of security problems with their products. They get the reports, they get the customer support complaints and they are the ones left holding the ball.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Apologies if repost. Microsoft discontinues Windows Live OneCare – offers lightweight alternative for free[^] However, might MS be prevented from doing this? I'm sure they really wanted to offer OneCare for free.
Kevin
What's OneCare? :rolleyes: codenamed “Morro" Uh. That's ripe for puns. Marc
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Apologies if repost. Microsoft discontinues Windows Live OneCare – offers lightweight alternative for free[^] However, might MS be prevented from doing this? I'm sure they really wanted to offer OneCare for free.
Kevin
Sorry....what....MS WhoCare?
Simon
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Sorry....what....MS WhoCare?
Simon
one cares - microsoft ;P Best regards, Paul.
Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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What's OneCare? :rolleyes: codenamed “Morro" Uh. That's ripe for puns. Marc
Drop an "r" and append an "n", describes what I think of OneCare perfectly :rolleyes:
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I don't know of one person who trusted MS to protect their system. How can the company that made the systems so insecure that they needed protection be the ones to deal with the problem?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Viruses and other malware do not, in general, take advantage of security holes in the software. They take advantage of the one big security hole in front of the keyboard. Problems would be reduced quite a lot if everyone would actually use the security protections in the software and run Windows XP as a standard user, and operate as a standard user or leave UAC enabled on Windows Vista. It's an incredibly hard problem to reduce access to the user's files and settings to only some programs. In the current security model, on Windows and on other operating systems, access control is done on a per-user basis - if any part of the system can perform a task for the user (say installing a program to run when that user logs in) any other program can do the same.
"Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another." - Andrei Alexandrescu
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Baconbutty wrote:
How can the company that made the systems so insecure that they needed protection be the ones to deal with the problem?
I think it is a bit more complicated than that. Microsoft should be the most aware of security problems with their products. They get the reports, they get the customer support complaints and they are the ones left holding the ball.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
and they are the ones left holding the ball.
That's kinda of been their issue ... they're always playing with their balls ... :rolleyes: