This blog is primarily concerned with NIS 2007 (and a bit on NIS 08). I have nothing to say about more recent versions.

This blog is more or less dormant (except for occasional comments on related news), and is being left on-line as a historical record and perhaps as a warning to future generations of anti-virus coders.

2008-03-25

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Thanks Diggers!

Only a few days left on the latest survey. 'Resource Hog' leading far and away. Symantec, assuming they choose to try to survive, could get some valuable marketing information from that survey.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

use Linux man I tell you I didnt have to worry about virus or spyware. Default install no firewall/anti-spyware/anti-virus needed.

Saves a lot of headaches. No freaking stupid reboots.

Anonymous said...

I agree, but...

I'm a big fan of peripheral devices; gadgets that plug into the USB port and so forth. In general, one needs to have a Windows XP computer in the house to achieve maximum compatibility with such hardware. Even Vista is a major issue. For that reason, our old desktop with XP isn't going anywhere.

For Linux, from what I've seen, the 'International Driver Shortage' continues.

But when I ever get around to building a PC, I'm not likely to pay hundreds of dollars for Windows. So it would likely be a Linux machine at that point.

But I agree with you.