What’s worse than virus protection? Free virus protection

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 13 October, 2008 to the technology subset

Food for thought?
The only thing worse than viruses - is virus protection software. And the only thing worse than virus protection software - is free virus protection software.

As an ex-web designer I still field a number of support requests from people using certain free virus protection software. Not saying the subscription applications are any better [...]

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Anti Virus software blackballed by the whitelist

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 to the technology subset

Whitelists rather than blacklists may be the future of network and computer security, according to IT experts.
Whitelisting is the process by which only pre-approved applications are able to execute on a network - while unknown and unwanted ones are blocked. It is the opposite of today’s approach - by which applications are free to run [...]

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