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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Like many people, there are some things not available on Linux. This season TurboTax and HRBlock TaxCut come to mind.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So I somehow got a subscription to McAffe Security. Lately it's efforts at self promotion are becoming very annoying. I download a PDF from a source, it pops up a notice that it is checking the file "just to be safe". Obviously this also wastes a few seconds. Other times, I am busy typing something into a file and a message pops up telling me this or that about security. Naturally this window also means a sentence or two that I typed didn't get into my file. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, April 17, 2022, 12:22:46 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Deliberately circumventing your distro's package regime is reckless.<br>People keep learning that the hard way (or, worse, never figuring it<br>out.<br><br><br><br>IMO, one significant if not dominant reason for this prevailing badness<br>is that most articles about malware are slightly adapted press releases<br>from antimalware companies. The latter have zero incentive to help<br>end-users correctly understand security. To the contrary, their best<br>interest is served by stirring up users about alleged and real threats<br>_without_ understanding them, therefore motivating them to buy<br>antimalware companies' goods and services. And, with some honourable<br>exceptions, that's the way they express themselves, which is then<br>reflected very strongly in the IT press coverage that cribs from them<br>(which amounts to almost all IT press coverage).<br><br><br></div>
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