Re: Spybot v. Symantec

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Richard M. Smith wrote:

> When I declined the uninstall recommendation, I was able to continue
> installing Norton Internet Security 2007, during which process Spybot
> detected multiple changes to the Registry and asked to me allow or reject
> each one of them. 

Perhaps you missed the name of this list -- it's _fun_sec, not 
_sad_sec.

There's nothing fun, or funny, about this kind of ongoing stupidity 
which results from moronic adherance to now grossly unsatisifactory 
blacklisting style "technologies" on the part of _both_ developers.

It's sad that the developers of such products think it is still 
acceptable to produce such stupid software (and note, this observation 
is _not_ specifically directed at the developers of either or products 
mentioned in this article).

And it's sad that the users of the software remain as ignorant of "how 
things work" and "what makes sense" that they keep using such schlock.

And it's even sadder (though not at all surprising) that this user 
ignorance is significantly responsible for the continuance of both of 
the above effects because it props up the business model underlying the 
whole mess...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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