cyrnel

GIANT's AV abilities are lightweight. Even its spyware detection is blunted by politics. (if they ignore Claria/Gator since the possible acquisition, what's next?) MS AV may arrive someday. They did buy GeCAD, but whether fearing antitrust battles or whoknowswhat, no real MS AV product yet.

Ignoring Claria-esque events, trusting MS alone to block attacks goes against in-depth protection. Even if the products were written by outsiders, their ubiquity makes them the child barrier every malware author must cross.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195