[LINK] McAfee update problem

[Kim Holburn]

Enterprises can deal with this sort of thing.  They often have IT  
staff, if they are any good they should be able to rebuild any system  
fairly quickly, ie less than an hour.  It's small business and home  
users who will be hit hard.

Personally I hate the way systems from major manufacturers come  
preloaded with crapware, demos, trial versions and nagware, especially  
AV software.  I'm sure this is where Macafee gets a lot of customers.

I spent quite a lot of time in 2008 repairing systems after AVG did  
something similar and rendered machines unbootable.  At least AVG was  
free and it wasn't expensive to move away from it.  Macafee now, you  
might have money tied up in licenses and not want to change.

On 2010/Apr/24, at 10:57 AM, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stilgherrian  
> <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24/04/2010, at 10:08 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>> What "labs"?
>>
>> Any halfway decent enterprise (in the sense of "very large  
>> business") will,
>> or at least should, already have a test environment for doing QA on  
>> its own
>> internal applications before rolling out changes throughout the
>> organisation. The "lab" may be nothing more than a PC or two set up  
>> with the
>> organisation's standard operating environment and a list of quick  
>> tests to
>> do.
>>
>
> Find me an enterprise that isn't doing automatic AV updates in  
> (basically)
> real-time from when they are released by the AV manufacturer, and  
> I'll show
> you a company that spends significant time cleaning up infected  
> systems...
>
> Whilst what you're saying is definitely true for new applications/ 
> etc, it's
> simply not feasible nor cost effective for companies to test each  
> and every
> new anti-virus signature file released by their AV provider.
>
>  Scott
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